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Description: signed and numbered EA on the figure's right foot; inscribed Susse Fondeur Paris on the the figure's left foot bronze with dark brown patina

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Dimensions: measurements 38 1/2 by 37 by 29 in. alternate measurements 97.8 by 94 by 73.7 cm

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Provenance: Francoise Guiter, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1998

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Exhibited:

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Published: Exh. Cat., Galerie Creuzevault, Germaine Richier 1904 - 1959, Paris, 1966, p. 72, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., Louisiana Museum For Moderne Kunst, Germaine Richier, Humblebaek, 1988, p. 22, illustration of another example
Yves Cosquer, Letter dated March 26, 1993, an invitation to the exhibition titled Olivier Debre - 50 tableaux pour un timbre - avant premiere a la vente de 'Rouge rythme bleu' - Decouverte d'une autre edition artistique de la Poste: Germaine Richier, 'Le Griffu', avec l'oeuvre en bronze: Musée de La Poste, Paris, April, 1993
Exh. Cat., Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier, rétrospective, April - September 1996, p. 104, another example illustrated and on the cover
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, September - November 1997, no. 49, another example illustrated
Philip Rylands, ed., The Nasher Sculpture Garden: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1999
Louisiana Klubben: Matta/Richier, August 1988

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Notes: Executed in 1952, and cast in 1984, this work is number EA from an edition of 11 versions numbered 1/6 through 6/6 and HC1, HC2, HC3, EA and 0/6.