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Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
HENRI LAURENS (1885-1954)
Le Jour (Grande version)
Details
HENRI LAURENS (1885-1954)
Le Jour (Grande version)
signed with monogram (lower right) and numbered '1⁄6' (lower left); stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
32 x 24 ¼ x 6 7⁄8 in. (81.1 x 61.5 x 17.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1937; this bronze version cast by circa 1960
Le Jour (Grande version)
signed with monogram (lower right) and numbered '1⁄6' (lower left); stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the underside)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
32 x 24 ¼ x 6 7⁄8 in. (81.1 x 61.5 x 17.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1937; this bronze version cast by circa 1960
Provenance
Marina and Willy Staehelin-Peyer, Zurich (by circa 1960); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17-18 November 1998, lot 402.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
Henri Laurens: Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris, 1967, p. 51 (another cast illustrated).
W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, pp. 160 and 218 (another cast illustrated).
S. Kuthy, ed., Henri Laurens, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 1985, pp. 113 and 138 (another cast illustrated).
W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, pp. 160 and 218 (another cast illustrated).
S. Kuthy, ed., Henri Laurens, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 1985, pp. 113 and 138 (another cast illustrated).
Presentado por
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale