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Lot 26: GERMAINE RICHIER

Germaine Richier - 1902-1959

Auction House: Sotheby's

Auction Location: United Kingdom

Auction Date: 2005

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Date: 1902 - 1959

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Description: inscribed with the artist's signature and stamped 5/5

bronze

Conceived between 1954-1956 and cast at a later date, this work is from an edition of five plus three Hors Commerces and two artist's proofs.

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Dimensions: 102 by 110 by 48cm.

40 by 43 1/4 by 19in.

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Provenance: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

Semiha Huber-Hassanzade, Zurich

Acquired directly from the above by the family of the present owner in 1960

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Published: Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Germaine Richier, 1956, no. 36, illustration of another cast

Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, The Sculptures of Germaine Richier, 1957, no. 21, illustration of another cast

Exhibition Catalogue, Minneapolis Walker Art Centre, Sculpture by Germaine Richier, 1958, no. 28, illustration of another cast

Venice, Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Dalle Nature all'Arte, 1960, no. 2, illustration of another cast

Exhibition Catalogue, Zürich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, 1963, no. 56, illustration of another cast

Enrico Crispolti, I Maestri della Scultura, Milan 1968, pp. 50-52, no. 65, illustration of another cast

Exhibition Catalogue, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Germaine Richier, 1988, p. 12, no. 31, illustration of another cast

Exhibition Catalogue, Saint-Paul de Vence, Foundation Maeght, Germaine Richier Rétrospective, 1996, pp. 144-145, no. 78, illustration of another cast in colour

Exhibition Catalogue, Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, 1997, pp. 116-117, illustration of another cast

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