Lot 135
  • 135

Germaine Richier

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
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Description

  • Germaine Richier
  • L'Homme de la nuit (Grand)
  • signé et porte la marque du fondeur Susse Fondeur, Paris
  • bronze
  • 74 x 82 x 29 cm; 29 1/8 x 32 1/4 x 11 7/16 in.
  • Conçu en 1954, L'Homme de la nuit (Grand), dans son tirage original comprend 11 épreuves. Cette épreuve porte le numéro 4/6.

Provenance

Collection particulière, France
Transmis par descendance au propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

Paris, Musée National d'Art moderne, Germaine Richier, 10 octobre-9 décembre 1956; catalogue, no.61, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism, 1 décembre 1984-7 janvier 1985, p.205, illustré (autre exemplaire)

Literature

Catalogue d'exposition, Paris, Musée Rodin, Histoires Naturelles, 1959, n.139, pl.XVI, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Catalogue d'exposition, Zurich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, 1963, no.68, pl.XV, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Catalogue d'exposition, Zurich, Kunsthaus, Der Skulpturensaal Werner Bar im Kunstaus Zurich, 1970, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Roland Penrose, Scrapbook 1900-1981, Londres, 1981, p. 184, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Catalogue d'exposition, Humlebaeck, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, 1988, no.27, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Itzhak Goldberg, Les Bêtes humaines de Germaine Richier, in Beaux-Arts Magazine, Paris, May 1996, pp.64-68, illustré (autre exemplaire)
Catalogue d'exposition, Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier Rétrospective, pp.125-127, no.64, illustré en couleurs (autre exemplaire)
Alain Dreyfus, Germaine Richier, des spectres familiers, in Libération, Paris, 18 June 1996, p.37, illustré (autre exemplaire)

Condition

There is no evidence of any scratches or dents on the work.
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