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March 5, 04:45 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jean Decoen

1890 - 1979


Le Baiser

inscribed Jean Decoen and dated 1914 (on the base)

marble

length: 164 cm. 64½ in.

Executed in 1914. This work is unique.

Private Collection, Belgium

Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 26 May 2010, lot 239

L'Egide Antiquités, Brussels

Acquired from the above in 2011 by the present owner

Brussels, Salon Triennal de Bruxelles, 1914, no. 975, n.p., listed

Albert Hoogewijs, Jean Decoen, Brussels, 1955, pp. 7 and 24-27, illustrated

Edmond Radar, Jean Decoen, Mechelen, 1973, no. 6, pp. 22 and 327, illustrated