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Description: 1888-1968
MON FILS

MON FILS

measurements
height: 47 1/2 in.

alternate measurements
120.6 cm

Conceived in 1923.

Inscribed Ch. Orloff, numbered 3/8 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris

Bronze

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, New York (sale: Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 1988, lot 80)
Sale: Guy Loudmer, Paris, April 9, 1989, lot 58
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

LITERATURE

Edouard des Courrières, Chana Orloff, Paris, 1927, illustration of the cement cast p. 33
Haim Gamzu, Jean Cassou, Cécile Goldscheider & Germain Coutard-Salomon, Chana Orloff, Turin, 1980, illustration of the plaster pl. 68
Félix Marcilhac, Chana Orloff, Paris, 1991, no. 2, illustration of another example p. 110