Lot 20
  • 20

Etienne-Martin

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
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Description

  • Etienne-Martin
  • Couple Goudron
  • signed and numbered 4/6 on the base
  • bronze 
  • 46 x 104 x 38 cm; 18  1/8  x 40  15/16  x 14  15/16  in.
  • Executed in 1954-1955, this work is number 4 of an edition of 6, plus one artist's proof and one edition marked 0.

Provenance

Michel Couturier, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Sale: Christian de Quay et Francis Lombrail, Paris, 15 December 1994, lot 149
Collection Alain & Candice Fraiberger

Exhibited

Paris, Musée Rodin, Rétrospective Etienne Martin, 1972; catalogue, n.p., no. 41 (another example dated 1955)

Literature

Renée Saurel, La sculpture Française contemporaine : Etienne Marcel, 11 february 1955, illustrated (wood example) 
Jean-Christophe Ammam, Der Bildhauer Etienne-Martin, May 1967, p. 289, no. 54, illustrated (wood example)
Pierre Restany, Entretiens avec Etienne Martin, July 1968, pp. 11, 14, no. 81, illustrated (wood example)
Michel Ragon, Etienne-Martin, Brussels, 1970, p. 72, no. 52, illustrated (wood example)
Suzanna Lederna, Etienne Martin, 1977, p. 61, no. 6, illustrated
Dominique Le Buhan, Les Demeures d'Etienne-Martin, Paris, 1982, illustrated (wood example)

Condition

The dark brown patina is richer in in the original work. Some oxidation marks are visibile on the junction of the four feet to the base. This work is in very good condition.
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