LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Plexiglas and metal

Measurements:

15.16 in. (38.50 cm.) (height)

Edition:

unique

Markings:

signed and dated 'Pevsner 20' (on the base); signed twice and dated 'Pevsner 1920' (underneath)

Exhibited:

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Abstrakte und Surrealistische Malerei und Plastik, October - November 1929, no. 101.Zurich, Kunsthaus, Begründer der modernen Plastik - Arp, Brancusi, Chauvin, Duchamp-Villon, González, Laurens, Pevsner, November - December 1954, no. 182.Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Antoine Pevsner, December - March 1954, no. 20.Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Sculpture du XXème siècle 1900-1945. Tradition et rupture, July - October 1981, no. 147.

Literature:

P. Peissi & C. Giedion-Welcker, Antoine Pevsner, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 53, p. 149 (illustrated pl. 53).C. Giedion-Welcker, Schriften 1926-1971, Stationen zu einem Zeitbild, Cologne, 1973, no. 116, p. 447 (illustrated).A. Lardera, Antoine Pevsner, sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, 1992 (illustrated fig. 32).J.-C. Marcadé, Colloque international Antoine Pevsner, Paris, 1992, p. 60 (illustrated pl. 49).E. Lebon & P. Brullé, Antoine Pevsner, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 2002, no. 15,pp. 54-55 (illustrated; dated ‘1925’).

Provenance:

Private collection, Zurich, by whom probably acquired in 1929, and thence by descent to the present owner.