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La Mère
Details
Henri Laurens (1885-1954)
La Mère
signed with the monogram, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark 'HL-1/5 C. Valsuani Cire Perdue' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 3/8 in. (59.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1935 and cast at a later date in an edition of 5
La Mère
signed with the monogram, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark 'HL-1/5 C. Valsuani Cire Perdue' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 23 3/8 in. (59.4 cm.)
Conceived in 1935 and cast at a later date in an edition of 5
Provenance
Private collection, Zurich, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
M. Raynal, Henri Laurens, Toulouse, 1946, p. 9.
D.-H. Kahnweiler & W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970 (another cast illustrated pl. 157).
C. Giedion-Welcker, Schriften 1926-1971, Stationen zu einem Zeitbild, Cologne, 1973, no. 107, p. 444 (another cast illustrated).
J. Leymarie, Henri Laurens, Rome, 1980, p. 14.
D.-H. Kahnweiler & W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970 (another cast illustrated pl. 157).
C. Giedion-Welcker, Schriften 1926-1971, Stationen zu einem Zeitbild, Cologne, 1973, no. 107, p. 444 (another cast illustrated).
J. Leymarie, Henri Laurens, Rome, 1980, p. 14.
Exhibited
Venice, Biennale Internazionale Arte Venezia XXV, catalogo, 1950, no. 3, p. 408.
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