A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

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Henri Laurens

L'Acrobate au tapis

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954


L’Acrobate au tapis

inscribed with the artist's monogramnumbered 5/6 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue

bronze

height: 12 ¼ in. 31.1 cm.

Conceived in 1939.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Marina and Willy Staehelin-Peyer, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1967)

Sotheby’s, New York, 13 November 1997, lot 430 (consigned by the above)

Landau Fine Art, Montreal (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Henri Laurens, 1960, no. 17, p. 16, illustration of another cast; p. 54 

Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais, Henri Laurens, Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, 1967, n.p., pl. 67, illustration of another cast

Werner Hofmann and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, pp. 22, 29, 42 and 179, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Villeneuve d’Ascq, Musée de l’art moderne de la communauté urbaine de Lille, Rétrospective Henri Laurens, 1992-93, no. 101, pp. 196-97, illustrations in color of another cast; p. 265