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PROPERTY FROM THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND: FROM THE ARTHUR AND MADELEINE CHALETTE LEJWA COLLECTION

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)

Cheval et cavalier, second état, dit "Le cavalier droit"

Details

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)
Cheval et cavalier, second état, dit "Le cavalier droit"
signed 'Duchamp Villon' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark and inscribed '.Georges Rudier. .Fondeur.Paris. LOUIS CARRE EDITEUR.' (on the back of the base)
bronze with black patina
Height: 11 1/8 in. (28.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1914; this bronze version cast by the estate of the artist after 1952

Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
Arthur and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa, New York.
Bequest from the above to the present owner, 1999.

Literature

M.-N. Pradel, Raymond Duchamp-Villon: La vie et l'oeuvre, Paris, 1960, nos. 76-77.
W.C. Agee, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, New York, 1967, p. 86, no. 2 (another cast illustrated, p. 88, fig. 61).
R. Apter-Gabriel, ed., The Arthur and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa Collection in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2005, p. 244, no. 153 (illustrated in color; illustrated again in color, p. 103).

Exhibited

Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Modern Art Permanent Display, 1999-2010.

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Lot Essay

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Association Duchamp Villon Crotti.

Duchamp-Villon reinvents the traditional theme of the horse in the present sculpture through an aesthetic vocabulary that employs Cubist elements to mechanize the animal's natural form. "The most profound and complex embodiment of the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century is Duchamp-Villon's Horse, symbol of a revolution still in progress" (W.C. Agee, op. cit., p. 89).

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