Jeune fille retirant sa chemise

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Roger De La Fresnaye (1885-1925)
Jeune fille retirant sa chemise
signed and numbered 'R. DE LA FRESNAYE 3/6' (on the right side of the base); inscribed with foundry mark 'Alexis.Rudier Fondeur.Paris' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 30¼ in. (76.8 cm.)
Conceived circa 1910-1911; this bronze version cast by 1950

Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (January 1951).
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris (April 1964).
Weintraub Gallery, New York.
Barbra Streisand, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, January 1980); sale, Christie's, New York, 3 March 1994, lot 152.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Exhibited

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Roger de la Fresnaye, July-October 1950, p. 45, no. 204.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Roger de la Fresnaye, February 1951, no. 3.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Sculpture by Painters, November-December 1951, no. 33 (illustrated, p. 12).
Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, From Rodin to Lipchitz, May-July 1958, no. 31 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Jeune fille retirant sa chemise is one of eight sculptures Roger de La Fresnaye executed in 1910 while studying at the Grande Chaumière under the tutelage of Aristide Maillol and alongside the young Raymond Duchamp-Villon.

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