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Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Henri Laurens

La Banderole

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

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Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954


La Banderole

inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue 

bronze

height: 14 ½ in. 36.8 cm. 

Conceived in 1931.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (probably acquired after 1957)

Otto Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired by 1960)

Christie’s, New York, 13 November 1985, lot 212

Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Grand Palais, Henri Laurens, Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, 1967, no. 22, n.p., illustration of another cast (titled La Banderolle)

Werner Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, p. 131, illustration of another cast; p. 218 

Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery and Belfast, Ulster Museum, Sculpture and Drawings by Henri Laurens 1885-1954, 1971, p. 47, illustration of another cast (titled La Banderolle)

Sandor Kuthy, Henri Laurens 1885-1954, Bern, 1985, no. 50, pp. 120-21, illustration in color of the terracotta version (titled Femme à la draperie

Exh. Cat., Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda, Tête-à-tête, Léger, Laurens, 2012, no. 58, pp. 130-31, illustration in color of another cast; p. 198