HENRI LAURENS | LES ONDINES

Auction Closed

July 28, 08:20 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION

HENRI LAURENS

1885 - 1954

LES ONDINES

inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered 3/6 and stamped with the foundry mark Valsuani cire perdue

bronze

length: 159cm., 62⅝in.

Conceived in 1933 and cast in bronze in an edition of 6.

Otto Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired by 1958)

Bernstein und Waddington Gallery, Zurich

Acquired from the above in 1987

P. Reverdy, ‘Henri Laurens’, in Le Point, Lanzac, July 1946, vol. XXXIII, another cast illustrated in photographs

W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, smaller version illustrated p. 142

S. Kuthy, Henri Laurens, 1885-1954, Bern & Fribourg, 1985, no. 56, another cast illustrated pp. 26 & 127

New York, Fine Arts Associates Inc. (Otto M. Gerson), Henri Laurens Sculpture, 1958, no. 2, illustrated in the catalogue