A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

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Henri Laurens

Femme nue couchée

Auction Closed

November 19, 03:54 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

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Description

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954


Femme nue couchée 

inscribed with the artist's monogram

limestone

length: 32 ⅜ in. 82.2 cm.

Executed in 1924; this work is unique.

Galerie de L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Waddington Galleries Ltd., London (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Monaco (acquired from the above in 1985)

Sotheby’s, London, 1 December 1987, lot 53

Private Collection, Tokyo (acquired at the above sale)

Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Paris

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

Léonce Rosenberg, ed., Bulletin de L'Effort Moderne, no. 5, May 1924, n.p., illustrated (titled Le Nu couché)

Fonds Léonce Rosenberg, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris, LROS 39, nos. 570-71

Werner Hofmann and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, p. 218, pl. 108, illustrated (titled Reclining Nude)