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Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
HENRI LAURENS (1885-1954)
La Nuit (Grande version)
Details
HENRI LAURENS (1885-1954)
La Nuit (Grande version)
signed with monogram and numbered '1⁄6' (lower left) and stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (lower right)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
32 x 24 3⁄8 x 6 3⁄8 in. (81.3 x 61.9 x 16.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1937; this bronze version cast by circa 1960
La Nuit (Grande version)
signed with monogram and numbered '1⁄6' (lower left) and stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (lower right)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
32 x 24 3⁄8 x 6 3⁄8 in. (81.3 x 61.9 x 16.2 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" in Le Point, vol. XXXIII, July 1946, p. 33 (plaster version illustrated).
Henri Laurens: Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris, 1967, p. 52 (another cast illustrated).
W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, pp. 161 and 218 (another cast illustrated).
S. Kuthy, ed., Henri Laurens, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 1985, pp. 113 and 139 (another cast illustrated).
Henri Laurens: Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, exh. cat., Grand Palais, Paris, 1967, p. 52 (another cast illustrated).
W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, pp. 161 and 218 (another cast illustrated).
S. Kuthy, ed., Henri Laurens, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, 1985, pp. 113 and 139 (another cast illustrated).
Presentado por
Emmanuelle Loulmet
Specialist, Head of the Impressionist and Modern Day Sale