Roger de la Fresnaye

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Description

Roger de la Fresnaye
JEUNE FILLE RETIRANT SA CHEMISE
Inscribed R. DELAFRESNAYE, numbered No 2 and with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris
Bronze, black patina
Height: 30 3/4 in.
78cm

Provenance

Norman Rockefeller, New York
By descent to the present owner

Literature

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Roger de la Fresnaye, 1950, illustration of another cast p. 45

Catalogue Note

According to Germain Seligman, de la Fresnaye created eight sculptures, all dating from 1910-11. She writes, "It was during this period of preoccupation with the human form that La Fesnaye made a serious essay at sculpture. While at the Academie Julian he had modelled three small terracottas, but now he was introduced more professionally to this medium." (Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye, London, 1969, p. 18)