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Description: signed, numbered HC 3 and stamped with the foundry mark Susse fondeur, Paris on the base patinated bronze

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Dimensions: measurements 212 by 73.6 by 86.6cm alternate measurements 83 1/2 by 29 by 34in.

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Provenance: B. C. Holland Gallery, Chicago
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in the 1980s

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Exhibited:

Zürich, Gimpel und Hanover Galerie, Albers, Appel, Arp, et al., 1962-63, no. 37
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind's Eye, Dada and Surrealism, 1984-85, p. 209, illustrated

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Published: Exhibition Catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Germaine Richier and Viera da Silva, 1955, n.p., no. 32, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Germaine Richier, 1956, n.p., no. 15, pl. IX, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sculptures by Germaine Richier, 1958, n.p., no. 9, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Images of Man, 1959, n.p., no.89, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Dalla Natura all'Arte, 1960, n.p., no. 5, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Zürich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, 1963, n.p., no. 42, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Galerie Creuzevault, Germaine Richier 1904-1959, 1966, n.p., illustration of another example
Enrico Crispolti, 'Germaine Richier' in: I Maestri della Scultura, No. 65 1968, n.p., pl. IX, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, 1988, p. 33, no. 15
Exhibition Catalogue, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier, Rétrospective, 1996, p. 99, no. 41, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, 1997, p. 42, illustrated in installation view of 1963 exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich, Germaine Richier, p. 48 illustrated in installation view of 1956 exhibition in Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Germaine Richier, and p. 71, no. 40, illustration of another example

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Notes: Conceived in 1950-1951, this work is HC3 from an edition of 8 plus 3 HC.This work will be included in the forthcoming Germaine Richier Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by Madame Françoise Guiter, Paris.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION