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Henri Laurens

La Jeune sœur

Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954


La Jeune sœur

inscribed with the monogram, numbered 4/6 and with the foundry mark C. Valsuani cire perdue

bronze

height: 29 cm. 11⅜ in.

Conceived in 1949; this example cast by the Valsuani Foundry, Paris in 1951. This work is number 4 from an edition of 6.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Christie's, London, 2 December 1986, lot 339

Private Collection, London

Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1989, lot 196 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Werner Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, Stuttgart, New York, 1970, p. 208, another cast illustrated