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Description: Baltasar Lobo (1910-1993)
Maternité (esquisse pour Caracas)
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'Lobo 0/3 Susse-Fondeur Paris' (on the back)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 28 in. (71.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1953; this bronze version cast in 1970

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Provenance: Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired from the artist).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1979.

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Published: J.-E. Muller, Lobo, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1985, p. 118, no. 117 (another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated in color, p. 42).

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Notes: Galería Freites will include this sculpture in their forthcoming Baltasar Lobo catalogue raisonné under the archive number 5308.