Contemporary Discoveries Including the Marcel Lehmann Lefranc Collection
Contemporary Discoveries Including the Marcel Lehmann Lefranc Collection
The Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc Collection | Collection Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc
Le Grain
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The Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc Collection
Germaine Richier
1902 - 1959
Le Grain
signed, numbered 5/6 and bears the foundry stamp Valsuani (on the base)
bronze
144 x 35 x 30 cm; 56 ¾ x 13 ¾ x 11 ¾ in.
Conceived in 1955, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6, plus one artist's proof, plus 3 hors commerce.
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Collection Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc
Germaine Richier
1902 - 1959
Le Grain
signé, numéroté 5/6 et porte la marque du fondeur Valsuani (sur la base)
bronze
144 x 35 x 30 cm; 56 ¾ x 13 ¾ x 11 ¾ in.
Conçue en 1955, cette œuvre est le numéro 5 d'une édition en 6 exemplaires, plus une épreuve d'artiste, plus 3 hors commerce.
Galerie Creuzevault, Paris
Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc, Paris (acquired from the above in 1968)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Denys Chevalier, "Un Grand Sculpteur: Germaine Richier" in Prestige Francais et Mondanités, Paris, September 1956, p. 60 (another cast)
Barbara Butler, "Paris" in Arts, New York, December 1956, pp. 14-16, no. 31 (another cast)
Paul Guth, Encounter with Germaine Richier, Yale French Studies, 1957-1958, pp. 78-84, no. 19-20, illustrated (another cast)
Enrico Crispolti, "Germaine Richier" in I maestri della scultura, Milan 1968, pp. 50-52, no. 65 (another cast)
Michel Conil-Lacoste, "Richier" in Nouveau dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris 1970, pp. 262-264 (another cast)
Ionel Jianou, Gérard Xurigera and Aube Lardera, La sculpture moderne en France depuis 1950, Paris 1950, p. 21-48 (another cast)
Elisabeth Lebovici, "L'atelier de Germaine Richier vu par Pierre-Olivier Deschamps" in Beaux-Arts Magazine, Paris, November 1989, pp. 94-99, no. 73 (another cast)
Valerie J. Fletcher, Germaine Richier, A Garden for Art - Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum, 1998, no. 19, p. 53 (another cast)
Exh. Cat., Galerie Perrotin, Germaine Richier, Sculpture 1934-1959, New York 2014, pp. 106-107 (another cast)
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Germaine Richier, October - December 1956, no.76, pl. XVIII, illustrated (another cast)
Almelo, Kunstkring de Waag, Sculptuur uit Heden en Verleden. Nederlands particulier bezit, 1957, no. 114 (another cast)
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, The Sculptures of Germaine Richier, November - December 1957, no. 17 (another cast)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sculpture by Germaine Richier, September - November 1958, no. 25 (another cast)
Boston, University School of Fine and Applied Arts, Sculpture by Germaine Richier, January - February 1959, no. 14 (another cast)
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Sculpture in Our Time - Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, May - August 1959, no. 196 (another cast)
Paris, Galerie Creuzevault, Germaine Richier, 1959, no. 32 (another cast)
Antibes, Musée Grimaldi - Château d'Antibes, Germaine Richier, July - September 1959, no. 49 (another cast)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Images of Man, September - November 1959, p.132, no. 92, illustrated (another cast)
New York, The Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, October 1962 - January 1963, no. 384 (another cast)
Antwerp, parc de Middelheim, VIIe Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, June - September 1963, no. 135 (another cast)
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, June - July 1963, no. 87 (another cast)
Antibes, Musée Grimaldi - Château d'Antibes, Hommage à Germaine Richier, June - July 1963 (another cast)
Arles, Musée Réattu, Germaine Richier, July - September 1964, no. 54 (another cast)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism, December 1984 - January 1985 (another cast)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées, December 1995 - March 1996, pp. 421 & 424, no. 8, illustrated
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier, rétrospective, April - June 1996, no. 80 (another cast)
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, September - November 1997, p. 92, no. 82, illustrated (another cast)
Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Passioni d'arte - da Picasso a Warhol, capolavori del collezionismo in Ticino, September - December 2002, p. 147, illustrated (another cast)
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne Centre Pompidou, Germaine Richier, March - June 2023, p. 93 (another cast)
Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Germaine Richier, Une rétrospective, July - November 2023 (another cast)
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