la sauterelle, petite by germaine richier

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Germaine Richier

French, 1904–1959

La Sauterelle, petite, 1944

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Medium: Bronze
Size: Size varies
Markings: Signed 'G. Richier', numbered '8/8' and stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' (on the base)

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Galerie Dina Vierny

Paris

About this Artwork

Provenance: Galerie Creuzevault, Paris
Private Collection
Galerie Claude Bernard, New York
Private Collection, Switzerland
Private Collection (by descent)
Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris
Exhibitions: Berne, Kunsthalle Bern, Plastiken : Marino Marini, Germaine Richier, Fritz Wotruba - Zeichnungen : Rodin, Maillot, Despiau, 1945, no. 36a (another cast)
Basel, Kunsthalle, Germaine Richier, Bissière, H. r; Schiess, Vieira da Silva, Raoul Ubac, 1954, no. 1 (another cast)
London, Hanover Gallery, Sculpture, 1962, no. 47 (another cast illustrated)
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, 1963, no. 26 (another cast)
Arles, Musée Réattu, Germaine Richier, 1964, no. 10 (another cast)
Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier, 1996, no. 14, illustrated p. 46 (another cast)
Paris, Galerie Dina Vierny, Couturier - Richier : une amitié sculpturale, 2023, illustrated pp. 94-95 (another cast)
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Germaine Richier, 2023, illustrated p. 124 (another cast)
Literature: M. Gasser, 'Germaine Richier', in Werk, no. 3, Winterthur, March 1946, pp. 69-77 (plaster illustrated)
N. Jacometti, 'Germaine Richier', in Vie Art Cité, Lausanne, July 1946
J. Pichard, 'Propos sur l'art: Germaine Richier au Musée d'Art Moderne', in La Croix, Paris, 13 octobre 1956
R. Barotte, 'Le journal des arts: Germaine Richier a mêlé la réalité à l'imaginaire', in Paris-presse-L'Intransigeant, Paris, 4 août 1959, another cast illustrated p. 6E
M. Conil-Lacoste, Richier, Nouveau Dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris, 1970, another cast illustrated pp. 262-264
Exhibition catalog: F. Morris, Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism, 1945-1955, Tate Gallery, Londres, 1993, pp. 161 and 162
W. Verlag, Germaine Richier, Berlin, 1997, no. 15, another cast illustrated p. 77
U. Grosenick, Women Artists. Femmes Artistes du XXe et du XXIe siècle, Cologne, 2001, p. 448, no. 3, another cast p. 447

Description

Conceived in 1944 and cast in bronze in an edition of 8 + 3 HC and 1 EA. The present work is number 8 from the edition and was cast in March 1962 by C. Valsuani.