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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2025 | Petite cariatide | 2 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | |||
sculpture
5 x 25.7 x 21.7 cm (1.97 x 10.12 x 8.54 in)
Bronze with dark brown patina.
With the artist"s monogram, the number and the foundry stamp “C. Valsuani Cire Perdue” on the back of the plinth
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (after 1957, with the gallery"s label inside the plinth). Berthold and Else Beitz Collection, Essen. Ever since family-owned.
Museum Folkwang, Essen (permanent loan 2015-2025). - - Each a different copy: Henri Laurens. Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, Grand-Palais, Paris, May to August 1967, cat. no. 20 (illustrated) Braque et Laurens. Quarante années d"amitié, L"Annonciade, Musée de Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez, June 6 to October 8, 2017.
Werner Hofmann, Henri Laurens. Das plastische Werk, Stuttgart 1970, p. 218 (different copy illustrated). "I strive for mature forms. I want to make them so rich and round that there is nothing more to add.” Henri Laurens, Une déclaration de Henri Laurens, in: Amis de l"art, June 26, 1951, Neue Folge, 1, p. 3, quoted in: Christiane Righetti (ed.), exhib. cat. Léger - Laurens. Tête-à-Tête, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Ostfildern-Ruit 2012, pp. 34f. Called up: June 6, 2025 - ca. 17.36 h +/- 20 min.
Henri Laurens
Petite cariatide
1930.
Bronze with dark brown patina.
Copy 2/6 (plus one copy for the Musée National d"Art Moderne, Paris). With the artist"s monogram, the number and the foundry stamp “C. Valsuani Cire Perdue” on the back of the plinth. Height: 45 cm (17.7 in). Of which the base: 5 x 25.7 x 21.7 cm (2 x 10.1 x 8.5 in).
Following the artist"s wish, his son Claude Laurens bequeathed a large ensemble of bronze casts embossed MN (Musée nationaux), to the French national museums in 1967, a copy of this bronze is therefore also part of the collection of the Musée national d"art moderne, Paris (today in the Musée Grenoble). [CH].
• Timeless beauty: compact, harmonious composition with sensual, rounded, and minimalist forms.
• Henri Laurens is considered one of the most influential French sculptors of the first half of the 20th century.
• His voluminous, expressive sculptures have had a formative influence on Modernism as a whole; today, they can be found in renowned museum collections around the world, including the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
• The representation of the female body plays a key role in his oeuvre.
• “
Petite cariatide
” combines Laurens" cubist approaches with the classicist linearity that reappeared in his work.
• Following Cubism, this work shows the rounded, flowing forms of the sought-after 1940s.
• From the renowned Berthold and Else Beitz Collection and on permanent loan to the Museum Folkwang, Essen, until 2025
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