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Description: Chana Orloff (1888-1968)
Vénus
signed and dated 'Chana Orloff 1925' (on the back of the base); inscribed with foundry mark '.Alexis Rudier..Fondeur.Paris.' (on the left side of the base)
bronze with green patina
Height: 26 7/8 in. (68.3 cm.)
Conceived in 1925; this bronze version cast by 1952

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Provenance: Private collection, Europe.
Galerie Vallois, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987.

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Published: F. Marcilhac, Chana Orloff, Paris, 1991, pp. 86 and 226, no. 103 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 87; another cast illustrated, p. 226).