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Description: THE COLLECTION OF HANS AND ALICE DE JONG, HENGELO/ASCONA

1902-1959
LE GRAIN

LE GRAIN

measurements
bronze: 144.5 by 32.5 by 31cm.; 57 by 12 3/4 by 12 1/4 in.

alternate measurements
overall: 169.5 by 35 by 35cm.; 66 3/4 by 13 3/4 by 13 3/4 in.

inscribed with the signature and stamped with the Valsuani foundry mark on the base

bronze

Executed in 1955, this work is number 3 from an original cast of 11.

PROVENANCE

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owners in 1957

EXHIBITED

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Germaine Richier, 1956, no. 76, incorrectly illustrated as no. XVIII
Almelo, Kunstkring de Waag, Sculptuur uit Heden en Verleden. Nederlands particulier bezit, 1957, no. 114, incorrectly illustrated as no. 98
Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum; Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, oog in oog met hans en alice de jong, 1970, no. 39, illustrated
Lyngby, Sophienholm, International Billedkunst, Alice og Hans de Jong's Samling, 1971, no. 77

LITERATURE

Denys Chevalier, 'Un Grande Sculpteur: Germaine Richier' in Prestige Français et Mondanités, September 1956, p. 60, illustration of another cast
Sidney Geist in Arts, no. 32, December 1957, p. 47, illustration of another cast
Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Galerie Creuzevault, Germaine Richier, 1959, no. 32, illustration of another cast
Exhibition Catalogue, Antibes, Musée Picasso, Germaine Richier, 1959, no. 49, illustration of another cast
Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Images of Man, 1959, illustration of another cast
Abram Lerner, The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York 1974, p. 462, no. 676, illustration of another cast
Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées, 1996, no. 8, illustration of another cast
Exhibition Catalogue, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Germaine Richier, 2006-07, p. 131, illustration of another cast