Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction

Henri Laurens

Allégorie

Auction Closed

September 17, 08:12 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954

Allégorie

inscribed with the monogram, numbered 1/6 and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani cire perdue

bronze

length: 66 cm. 26 in.

Conceived and cast in 1945 by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris. This work is number 1 from an edition of 6.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm (acquired by 1952)

Private Collection, Sweden (acquired from the above)

Estate of the above

Christie’s, London, 28 March 1988, lot 42 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Henri Laurens, 1952, no. 39

Werner Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, p. 34, plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio

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