Lot 340
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Édouard Marcel Sandoz

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Description

  • Édouard Marcel Sandoz
  • "Condor"
  • signed Ed. M.SANDOZ
  • granite

Provenance

Edgar Brandt, Paris, 1929
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1929-1972
Sotheby's Parke-Bernet New York, May 2-5, 1972, lot 130
Private Collection, 1972-1978
Christie's New York, May 27, 1979

Exhibited

Les Animaliers, Galerie Edgar Brandt, Paris, 1927
American Birds, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, October-December 1945
Art Deco, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, 1971, cat. no. 28
Art Deco, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1971, cat. no. 324
Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1972-1978

Catalogue Note

 

Cranbrook Academy has confirmed that founder George G. Booth brought this condor directly from Edgar Brandt while traveling in Paris in 1929.  This majestic sculpture was designed to be realized in different media, and examples are known in bronze, plaster and black marble.  However, as Félix Marcilhac states in his catalogue raisonné, it appears that only one example of this model was ever created in granite.