A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction
A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction
Femme nue couchée
Auction Closed
November 19, 03:54 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
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)
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