Germaine Richier

Francoise Guiter, Paris
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1998

Kunsthalle Basel, Germaine Richier, Bissiere, H. R. Schiess, Vieira da Silva, Raoul Ubac, June - July 1954, no. 13 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vieira da Silva, Germaine Richier, February - March 1955, no. 38 (another example exhibited)
Lille, Roubaix, Galerie Marcel Evrard, Germaine Richier, Roger Vieillard, 1955, no. 8 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Germaine Richier, October - December 1956, no. 29, plate 8 (another example exhibited)
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, The Sculptures of Germaine Richier, November - December 1957, no. 9 (another example exhibited)
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, June - July 1963, no. 48 (another example exhibited)
Arles, Musée Réattu, Germaine Richier, July - September 1964, no. 26 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Musée Rodin, Forme Humaines, IIIe Biennale internationale de sculpture contemporaine, May - June 1968, no. 5 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Museen der Stadt, Westkunst, May - August 1981, no. 494 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Le siècle de Kafka, June - September 1984
Saint-Etienne, Musée d'art moderne, L'écriture griffée, December 1990 - February 1991
Paris, Musée de La Poste, Germaine Richier, April 1993
London, Tate Gallery, Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism, 1944-1955, June - September 1993
Venice, Guggenheim Museum, The Nasher Sculpture Garden at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 1999
Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Evolution of the Nasher Collection, October 2005 - May 2006

Exh. Cat., Galerie Creuzevault, Germaine Richier 1904 - 1959, Paris, 1966, p. 72, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., Louisiana Museum For Moderne Kunst, Germaine Richier, Humblebaek, 1988, p. 22, illustration of another example
Yves Cosquer, Letter dated March 26, 1993, an invitation to the exhibition titled Olivier Debre - 50 tableaux pour un timbre - avant premiere a la vente de 'Rouge rythme bleu' - Decouverte d'une autre edition artistique de la Poste: Germaine Richier, 'Le Griffu', avec l'oeuvre en bronze: Musée de La Poste, Paris, April, 1993
Exh. Cat., Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier, rétrospective, April - September 1996, p. 104, another example illustrated and on the cover 
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, September - November 1997, no. 49, another example illustrated
Philip Rylands, ed., The Nasher Sculpture Garden: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1999
Louisiana Klubben: Matta/Richier, August 1988

This sculpture is in very good and sound condition overall. The patina is fresh and dark brown. There are scattered areas of dust residue located particularly at the areas of the joins and the deeper apertures of the surface. Overall, however, this work is in very good condition.
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