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Jeune femme
Details
HENRI LAURENS (1885-1954)
Jeune femme
signed with initials, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'HL 2⁄6 C. Valsuani Cire Perdue' (on the top of the base)
bronze with black patina
height: 15 1⁄4 in. (38.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1950
Jeune femme
signed with initials, numbered and inscribed with foundry mark 'HL 2⁄6 C. Valsuani Cire Perdue' (on the top of the base)
bronze with black patina
height: 15 1⁄4 in. (38.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1950
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (no. 03831).
Acquired by the late owners circa 1970s-1980s, and thence by descent.
Acquired by the late owners circa 1970s-1980s, and thence by descent.
Literature
W. Hofmann & D.-H. Kahnweiler, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, p. 219 (another cast illustrated p. 211).
Special Notice
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