Lot 3
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CÉSAR | Compression Kadett

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 EUR
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Description

  • César
  • Compression Kadett 
  • signed and dated 78
  • 144 cm x 65 cm x 65 cm; 56 11/16 x 25 5/8 x 25 5/8 in.
compressed carExecuted in 1978.This work is registered in the archives of Denyse Durand-Ruel under the number 3398 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the current owners

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Beaubourg, César. Les Compressions, 1990; catalogue, p. 36, illustrated
Singapore, Festival des Arts, César, 1990; catalogue, np., illustrated
Vence, Galerie Beaubourg, Château Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Exposition inaugurale, 1993
Macau, Art Museum of Macau, Nice Mouvements - Contemporary French Art, 2000-2001; catalogue, p. 83, no. 3, illustrated
Monaco, Forum Grimaldi, César, l'instinct du fer, 2002; catalogue, p. 139, illustrated

Literature

Pierre Nahon, L'Histoire de La Galerie Beaubourg I, 1936 - 1988, Paris, 2009, p. 171, illustrated in colour
Pierre Nahon, L'Histoire de La Galerie Beaubourg II, 1988 - 1994, Paris, 2009, pp. 101, 254-255, 262, illustrated in colour
Marianne et Pierre Nahon, Dictionnaire amoureux illustré de l'Art moderne et contemporain, Gründ, 2018, p.77, illustrated in colour

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the printed catalogue illustration although the overall tonality in the yellow areas tends more to gold in the original work. The creases are slightly dusty. All imperfections to the surface are inherent to the artist technique and medium. This work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

What I call a sculptor is a statue sculptor. Sculptor is a profession, a craft around an object. It requires certain knowledge, certain mastery and technique to break free from it. Taking an object is not sculpting. (...) The day I compressed a car, it was a sculpting gesture, not an intellectual one. (...) It took me years to use a car. I used car bodies for the first times in 1954-55. I cut in the iron and the damaged bodies to make it polychromatic. I cut pieces of these crumpled parts that I integrated in my sculptures. They announce the compressions.
Cesar