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GERMAINE RICHIER(1904-1959)La Montagne 185 x 330 x 130cm (72 13/16 x 129 15/16 x 51 3/16in).
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GERMAINE RICHIER (1904-1959)
La Montagne
stamped with the artist's signature, stamped with the foundry mark and numbered 'G. Richier Susse Fondeur Paris 3/4' (on the base)
bronze
185 x 330 x 130cm (72 13/16 x 129 15/16 x 51 3/16in).
Executed between 1955-1956, this work is number 3 from an edition of 4, plus 3 Hors Commerce and 3 artist's proofs.
stamped with the artist's signature, stamped with the foundry mark and numbered 'G. Richier Susse Fondeur Paris 3/4' (on the base)
bronze
185 x 330 x 130cm (72 13/16 x 129 15/16 x 51 3/16in).
Executed between 1955-1956, this work is number 3 from an edition of 4, plus 3 Hors Commerce and 3 artist's proofs.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private collection, Dallas.
Private collection, London.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Germaine Richier, October - December 1956, no. 77, pl. XII, XIII, (another from the edition illustrated on the cover and illustrated n.p.).
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, The Sculptures of Germaine Richier, November - December 1957, no. 20 (illustrated n.p. (in installation at Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1956)).
Paris, Musée Rodin, Sculpture Française Contemporaine et de l'Ecole de Paris, June - October 1958, no. 52, pl. XIV, (another from the edition illustrated n.p.).
Paris, Galerie Henri Creuzevault, Germaine Richier, May 1959, (another from the edition illustrated n.p.).
Antibes, Musée Picasso, Germaine Richier, July - September 1959, no. 63 (another from the edition exhibited).
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Centro Internazionale delle arti e costume, Dalla natura all'arte, 1960, no. 4 (another from the edition illustrated n. p.).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, June - July 1963, no. 85 (another from the edition exhibited).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, February - April 1974, no. 677, pl. XXIII, (another from the edition illustrated p. 47).
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, August - September 1988, no. 34 (another from the edition illustrated pp. 20-21).
Valencia, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, El Fuego bajo las cenizas: De Picasso a Basquiat, May - August 2005 (edition no. HC 1 illustrated pp. 256-57).
Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Le Feu sous les cendres: De Picasso à Basquiat, October 2005 - February 2006 (edition no. HC 1 illustrated p. 83).
New York, Dominique Lévy & Galerie Perrotin, Germaine Richier, Sculpture 1934-1959, February - April 2013 (another from the edition illustrated pp. 118 - 123 and p. 150).
Literature
D. Chevalier, 'Sculpture encore: dans son atelier, vaste forêt de plâtres et de bronzes, Germaine Richier, chef d'école, sculpte les grands mythes sylvestres,' Femme, Paris, October - November 1956 (another from the edition illustrated pp. 81-83).
J. Cassou, Germaine Richier, London, 1961 (another from the edition illustrated p. 71).
F. Guiter & S. Guiter (ed.), Germaine Richier: Life and Work. Catalogue Raisonné – Vol. I, 1916-1946, Milan, 2024, (another from the edition illustrated pp. 97).