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Henri Laurens

Tête de femme

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Henri Laurens

1885 - 1954

 

Tête de femme

numbered VI. (on the interior)

terracotta

height: 34.6 cm. 13⅝ in.

Conceived in 1920. This work is number 6 from an edition of 6.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Private Collection, Geneva

Sotheby’s, London, 1 December 1982, lot 48 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Henri Laurens, 1951, no. 13, p. 8, wooden version listed (titled Tête de jeune fille)

Marthe Laurens, Henri Laurens: Sculpteur 1885-1954, Paris, 1955, pl. IV, no. 16, p. 89, wooden version illustrated (titled Jeune fille)