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

Baltasar Lobo

Maternité N° 2, Caracas

Auction Closed

November 19, 03:54 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Baltasar Lobo

1910 - 1993

Maternité N° 2, Caracas

inscribed Lobo and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris and numbered E.A. 4/4

bronze

length: 28 ¾ in. 73 cm.

Conceived in 1953 and cast in an edition of 4 plus 4 artist’s proofs; this example cast in 1979.

Galeria Freites, Caracas

Private Collection, Caracas (acquired by 1989)

Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach

Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Galerie Nathan, Baltasar Lobo. Marmor, Bronzen, Zeichnungen, 1979-80, no. 25, n.p., illustration in color of another cast (titled Femme et enfant)

Exh. Cat., Caracas, Galeria Freites, Baltasar Lobo. Bronces 1947-1977, 1981, illustration of another cast

Joseph-Émile Muller, Lobo: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1985, no. 117, p. 42, illustration in color of another cast; pp. 43 and 118, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Caracas, Galeria Freites, Baltasar Lobo, 1993, p. 67, illustration of another cast

Kosme de Barañano, María Luz Cardenas and María Jaume, Baltasar Lobo, Catalogo razonado de esculturas, vol. II, Madrid, 2021, no. 5504, p. 24, illustration of another cast

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Baltasar Lobo, 1989-90, no. 21, p. 55, illustrated in color