LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with gold patina (two superimposed elements)

Measurements:

39.57 in. (100.50 cm.) (height)

Edition:

2 of 3

Markings:

signed and numbered 'PEVSNER 2/3’ and stamped with the foundry mark ‘Susse Fondeur Paris’ (on the side of the base); inscribed 'DE Paris P O' (underneath)

Exhibited:

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, on loan, 1965. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, on loan, 1966. Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, on loan, 1968. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, on loan, 1968-1970

Literature:

P. Peissi & C. Giedion-Welcher, Antoine Pevsner, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 118 (another cast illustrated pp. 118-119). E. Lebon & P. Brullé, Antoine Pevsner, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté , Paris, 2002, no. 72-b, p. 204 (another cast illustrated p. 205)

Provenance:

Galerie René Drouin & Cie, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1962. The Joseph H. Hazen Foundation Inc, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 25 October 1972, lot 52. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner