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Artist or Maker: Germaine Richier (1904-1959)

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Description: L'homme qui marche
inscribed with the artist's signature and number 'G. Richier 4/8' (on the base)
bronze with brown patina
34 3/4 in. (88.3cm.) high, including base
Conceived in 1945 and cast in February 1962, this work is number four from an edition of eight

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Provenance: Galerie Colette Creuzevault, Paris.

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Published: Brassaï, Germaine Richier. Les artistes de ma vie, Paris 1982 (another cast illustrated, pp. 194-197).
Passions Privées, exh. cat., Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1995-1996, A 27, no. 6 (another cast illustrated, p. 271).
Germaine Richier Rétrospective, exh. cat., Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, 1996, no. 16 (another cast illustrated, p. 48). Germaine Richier, exh. cat., Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1997, no. 21 (another cast illustrated in colour, p. 88).

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