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Germaine Richier
Description
- Germaine Richier
- L'Homme de la Nuit (Grand)
- signed and stamped with the Valsuani foundry mark
- bronze
- 73 by 83 by 31cm.; 28 3/4 by 32 3/4 by 12 1/4 in.
- Executed in 1954, this work is number 2 from an edition of 6 plus 5 other proofs.
Provenance
Galerie Gerard Cramer, Geneva (acquired directly from the artist)
Joseph Randal Shapiro, Oak Park, Ilinois
Donated by the above to the present owner
Exhibited
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism, 1984, illustrated
Literature
Waldemar George, 'Germaine Richier' in Prisme des Arts, Paris, April 1956, no. 2
Denys Chevalier, 'Un Grand Sculpteur: Germaine Richier' in Prestige Français et Mondanités, Paris, September 1956, pp. 60-65, no. 19
André Chastel, 'Au Musée d'Art Moderne: Germaine Richier La Puissance et la Malaise' in Le Monde, Paris, 13 October 1956
Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Musée Rodin, Histoires Naturelles, 1959, no. 139, pl. XVI, illustration of another cast
Claude Roger-Marx, 'Cette Héritière inspirée des grands maîtres: Germaine Richier' in Le Figaro Littéraire, Paris, 8 August 1959
Exhibition Catalogue, Zürich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, 1963, no. 68, pl. XV, illustration of another cast
Romuald Dor de la Souchère 'Créations et Récréations de Germaine Richier' in Henri Creuzevault, Germaine Richier, Paris 1966
Exhibition Catalogue, Zürich, Kunsthaus, Der Skulpturensaal Werner Bar im Kunsthaus Zürich, 1970, illustration of another cast
Roland Penrose, Scrapbook 1900-1981, London 1981, p. 184, illustration of another cast
Ionel Jianou, Gérard Xurigura and Aube Lardera, 'Richier Germaine' in La Sculpture Moderne, Paris 1982, p. 178
Exhibition Catalogue, Humlebaeck, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, 1988, no. 27, illustration of another cast
Exhibition Catalogue, Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier Rétrospective, no. 64, pp. 125-127, illustration of another cast in colour