Lot 56
  • 56

George Minne (1866-1941)

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
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Description

  • George Minne
  • Mère pleurant ses deux enfants
  • inscribed G. Minne,
    impressed with the foundry mark of Petermann, Brussels: Fonderie  Nat. des Bronzes Bruxelles
  • bronze
  • Height: 64 cm.
  • Conceived in 1888 and cast circa 1900.

Provenance

Galerie Georges Giroux, 1927
Private Collection, Brussels and thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, George Minne en de kunst rond 1900, September - December 1982, pp. 82, 83, cat 19, illustration of another copy

Literature

L. van Puyvelde, George Minne, Brussels 1930, no. 5, plate 5, illustration of another cast

Condition

Surface dirt and slightly worn patina. Abrasion to the patina visible as a line on her right arm going round over her back, hair and left arm. Otherwise in good condition.
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