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Germaine Richier

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Description

  • Germaine Richier
  • La Feuille

  • signed on the left foot G. Richier HC3 and stamped on the right foot with the foundry mark L. Thinot Fondeur Paris

  • bronze
  • 141.5 by 37 by 26.5cm.
  • 55 1/2 by 14 1/2 by 10 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1948, this work is from an edition of 12

Provenance

Galerie Odermatt, Paris
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vieira da Silva, Germaine Richier, 1955, no. 39

Literature

Georges Limbour, 'La Peinture: Forêts en Bronze', in Actions, 24-30 November 1948, Paris, no. 217, another version illustrated
René de Solier, 'Germaine Richier', in Les Cahiers d'Art, June 1953, Paris, pp. 123-129, no. 28, another version illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, London, The Hanover Gallery, Germaine Richier, 1955, another version illustrated
Dominique Rolin, 'Germaine Richier ou la main d'ombre', in Carrefour, 10 October 1956, Paris, another version illustrated
Bernard Milleret, 'Envoûtement de Germaine Richier', in Les Nouvelles Littéraires, 11 October 1956, Paris, another version illustrated
André Chastel, 'Germaine Richier: la puissance et le malaise', in Le Monde, 13 October 1956, Paris, another version illustrated
Michel Conil-Lacoste, 'Germaine Richier ou la confusion des règnes' in Cahiers du Sud, February 1957, Marseille, pp. 307-311, another version illustrated
Robert Couturier, Alberto Giacometti & Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva, 'Adieu à Germaine Richier', in Tribune de Lausanne, 9 August 1957, another version illustrated
André Pieyre de Mandiargues, 'Germaine Richier', in Synthèses, Brussels 1959, pp. 3-8, another version illustrated
Jean Cassou, Richier, (Sculpteurs Modernes, ed.), Paris 1961, another version illustrated
Henri Creuzevault, Germaine Richier (1904-1959), Paris 1966, illustrated in colour on the cover
Enrico Crispolti, 'Germaine Richier', in I Maestri della Scultura, Milan 1968, pp. 50-52, no. 65, another version illustrated
Michel Conil-Lacoste, 'Richier', in Nouveau dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris 1970, pp. 262-264, another version illustrated
Edward Lucie-Smith, 'Germaine Richier', in L'Art aujourd'hui, Paris 1977, p. 508, another version illustrated
Brassaï, 'Germaine Richier', in Les Artistes de ma Vie, Paris 1982, pp. 194-97, another version illustrated
Elisabeth Lebovici, 'L'atelier de Germaine Richier vu par Pierre-Olivier Descamps', in Beaux-Arts magazine, November 1989, Paris, pp. 94-99, no. 73, another version illustrated