Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Property from an Important Private Collection, New York
Antoine Pevsner
Le Lis noir, dit aussi Construction en spirale
Lot Closed
November 19, 06:19 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection, New York
Antoine Pevsner
1886 - 1962
Le Lis noir, dit aussi Construction en spirale
Inscribed Pevsner, numbered 2/3 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
Bronze
Height: 20 1/8 in. (51.1 cm)
Conceived in 1944 and cast in October 1959 by the Susse Foundry, Paris.
Thence by descent
Antoine Pevsner (exhibition catalogue), Galerie René Drouin, Paris, 1947, no. 14
Gabo—Pevsner (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 24
Antoine Pevsner (exhibition catalogue), Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 1956, no. 38
Pierre Peissi & Carola Giedion-Welcker, Antoine Pevsner, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 94, illustration of another cast n.p.
Aube Lardera, Antoine Pevsner, Sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, 1992, fig. 59
Jean-Claude Marcadé,
Pevsner (1884-1962), 1995, illustrations of another cast p. 57 & 69 (possibly)
Verschmelzendes Rosa und schwarze Spannung / Werke des osteuropäischen Konstruktivismus aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung (exhibition catalogue), Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, 2001, n.n.
Elisabeth Lebon & Pierre Brullé, Antoine Pevsner, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 2002, no. 50, illustration of another cast p. 136