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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2017 | LA MÈRE | Sotheby's | New York | ||||
| May 4, 2006 | La mere | Sotheby's | New York | ||||
sculpture
59.6 cm (23.46 in)
Bronze
Inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered E.A and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above in 2013
Paris, Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Les Maîtres de l'art indépendant 1885-1937, 1937, no. 5
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Henri Laurens, 1949, no. 34
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Henri Laurens Skulpturen og Tegninger, 1949, no. 15
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Henri Laurens, 1951, no. 39
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Henri Laurens, 1952, no. 14, illustrated in the catalogue
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Begründer der Modernen Plastik: Arp, Brancusi, Chauvin, Duchamp-Villon, Gonzalez, Laurens, Lipchitz, Pevsner, 1954, no. 129
Vienna, Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Kunst von 1900 bis Heute, 1962, n.n.
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum, Georges Braque & Henri Laurens, 1969, no. 45
Prague, Narodni Galerie, Braque, Laurens, Picasso, 1970, no. 45
New York, Cultural Center & New Jersey, Farleigh Dickinson University, Laurens and Braque: The Donations to the French State Collection, 1971, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue
Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein & Kaiserslautern, Museum Pfalzgalerie, Henri Laurens Skulpturen und Graphik, 1975, no. 24
Rome, Académie de France, Henri Laurens, 1980, no. 43, illustrated in the catalogue
Marcq-en-Baroeul, Fondation Anne et Albert Prouvost, Henri Laurens, 1982, no. 26
London, Tate Gallery, The Essential Cubism, 1907 - 1920: Braque, Picasso and their Friends, 1983, no. 16
“Henri Laurens” in Le Point, Lanzac par Souillac, July 1946, illustration of the plaster in the artist's studio n.p.
Henri Laurens (exhibition catalogue), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1967, no. 45, illustration of another cast n.p.
Werner Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, illustration of another cast p. 157
Sandor Kuthy, Henri Laurens 1885-1954, Fribourg, 1985, no. 58, illustrations of another cast pp. 108 & 129
Henri Laurens Rétrospective (exhibition catalogue), Musée d'art moderne Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Lille, 1992-93, no. 81, illustration of another cast p. 175
Inscribed with the artist's monogram, numbered E.A and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue
Bronze
Height: 23 1/2 in.
59.6 cm
Conceived in 1935 and cast in a numbered edition of 7 plus 4 artist's proofs; this example cast during the artist's lifetime.
