A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction
A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction
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 monogram, numbered 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
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