LOT DETAILS

Materials:

silver-painted lakarme

Measurements:

80.75 in. (205.10 cm.) (height) by 20.47 in. (52.00 cm.) (width) by 16.97 in. (43.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J. MARTEL

Literature:

Joël. et Jan Martel , exh. cat., Musée de Saint-Jean-de-Monts, 1976, p. 21 (for the model in terracotta). Arlette Barré-Despond,. UAM: Union des Artistes Modernes , Paris, 1986, pp. 55 and 57 (for the model exhibited at the U.A.M. exhibition of 1931). Solange Goguel,. René Herbst , Paris, 1990, p. 63 (for the model in plaster exhibited at the U.A.M. exhibition of 1931). Christophe Vital et al.,. Joel et Jan Martel: Sculpteurs 1896-1966 , Paris, 1996, pp. 96-97 (for photographs and an original sketch of the design). Guillemette Delaporte,. René Herbst: Pioneer of Modernism, Paris, 2004, p. 98 (for the model in plaster exhibited at the U.A.M. exhibition of 1931). Alastair Duncan,. Art Deco Complete , New York, 2009, p. 120. Alastair Duncan,. Art Deco Sculpture , New York, 2016, p. 162. Jared Gross,. French Art Deco , New York, 2014, p. 154 (for a period photograph of a related model

Provenance:

Atelier Martel, Paris. Private Collection, France. Galerie Makassar, Paris. Wolfgang Joop, Potsdam, Germany. Sotheby's New York,. Property from the Collection of Wolfgang Joop , December 12, 2003, lot 432. Laurent Negro, Gourdon, France. Christie's Paris,. Les Collections du Château de Gourdon , March 31, 2011, lot 778. Acquired from the above by the present owner