Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738-1814)
Bust of Iphigenia
Auction Closed
July 5, 11:37 AM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738-1814)
French, dated 1802
Bust of Iphigenia
signed and dated: CLODION. / 1802.
terracotta, on a later ebonised wood socle
with the inventory number painted in red on the reverse: R.484.
bust: 25.5cm., 10in.
overall: 32.5cm., 12¾in.
Baroness Adèle de Rothschild (d. 1922), 11 rue Berryer, Paris (inv. no. 484);
Hôtel Drouot, Daguerre, Paris, 14 December 2001, lot 96;
with Daniel Katz Ltd., London, May 2003;
from whom acquired by Alexis Gregory.