Lot Essay
Galería Freites will include this work in their forthcoming Baltasar Lobo catalogue raisonné under the archive number 7304.
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Torse au soleil
Details
Baltasar Lobo (1910-1993)
Torse au soleil
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'Lobo 8/8 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the lower reverse edge)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 27 1/8 in. (69 cm.)
Length: 31 1/2 in. (80 cm.)
Conceived in 1973 and cast in an edition of eight, plus four artist's proofs; this example cast in 1989
Torse au soleil
signed, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'Lobo 8/8 Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the lower reverse edge)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 27 1/8 in. (69 cm.)
Length: 31 1/2 in. (80 cm.)
Conceived in 1973 and cast in an edition of eight, plus four artist's proofs; this example cast in 1989
Provenance
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1989.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Literature
J.-E. Muller, Lobo, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Lausanne, 1985, no. 383 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt, Lobo, Skulpturen Zeichnungen, August - October 1992, no. 29, pp. 15 & 59 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Tübingen, Kunsthalle.
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