Lot Essay
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A DIALOGUE THROUGH ART: WORKS FROM THE JAN KRUGIER COLLECTION
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)
Baudelaire
Details
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)
Baudelaire
signed 'Duchamp-Villon' (on the left side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges Rudier..Fondeur. Paris. LOUIS CARRÉ. EDITEUR.' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
height: 15¾ in. (40 cm.)
conceived in 1911 and cast by 1959
Baudelaire
signed 'Duchamp-Villon' (on the left side); inscribed with foundry mark 'Georges Rudier..Fondeur. Paris. LOUIS CARRÉ. EDITEUR.' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
height: 15¾ in. (40 cm.)
conceived in 1911 and cast by 1959
Provenance
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 1964). Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 9 November 2000, lot 243.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.
E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 1964). Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles (by descent from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 9 November 2000, lot 243.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.
Literature
W.C. Agee, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, New York, 1967, pp. 56-60, no. 16 (another cast illustrated, p. 57, fig. 35).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Sculptures de Duchamp-Villon, June-July 1963, pp. 7 and 16, no. 3 (illustrated, p. 17).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das ewige Auge: Von Rembrandt bis Picasso, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July-September 2007, p. 330, no. 157 (illustrated in color, p. 331).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das ewige Auge: Von Rembrandt bis Picasso, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July-September 2007, p. 330, no. 157 (illustrated in color, p. 331).