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Henri Laurens

La Corbeille

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954


La Corbeille

inscribed with the monogram, numbered 3/6 and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani cire perdue

bronze

height (including base): 30 cm. 11⅞ in.

Conceived in 1939; this example cast by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris. This work is number 3 from an edition of 6.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Private Collection, New Rochelle

Phillips, London, 10 April 1989, lot 6

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Henri Laurens, 1951, no. 50, p. 12, plaster listed

Werner Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, pp. 182 and 183, another cast illustrated