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Artist or Maker: Germaine Richier (1904-1959)

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Description: Le Griffu
bronze
39 3/8in. (100cm.)
Executed in 1952, this work is number five from an edition of six plus five other artist's proofs numbered HC1, HC2, HC3, EA, 0/6

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Provenance: Private Collection, France.

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Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Odermatt, Hommage à Germaine Richier, April 1992 (illustrated in colour, p. 43).
Luxembourg, Grand Duché du Luxembourg, Hommage à Germaine Richier, June-August 2001 (illustrated in colour, p. 53).

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Published: Germaine Richier, exh. cat., Musée national d'Art Moderne, Paris 1956, no. 29 (another from the edition illustrated, pl. 8).
Germaine Richier 1904-1959, exh. cat., Galerie Creuzevault, Paris 1966 (illustrated, p. 72).
Germaine Richier, exh. cat., Louisiana Museum For Moderne Kunst, Humblebaek 1988 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 22).
Germaine Richier Rétrospective, exh. cat., Fondation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence 1996 (another from the edition illustrated on the cover and p. 104).
Germaine Richier, exh. cat., Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1997, no. 49 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 60).

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