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Lot 181A DIALOGUE THROUGH ART: WORKS FROM THE JAN KRUGIER COLLECTION
Germaine Richier (1904-1959)
La Mandoline ou La Cigale
Fermé5 November 2013
Prix réalisé
USD 197,000
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Note du spécialiste
Françoise Guiter will include this work in the upcoming Germaine Richier Catalogue Raisonné in preparation and we are grateful for her assistance.
Please note this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Françoise Guiter.
In the years after the Second World War, Germaine Richier abandoned her realist style that she had learned from Rodin's assistant, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, to create striking sculptures that fuse the formal language of expressionism with the dark whimsy of Surrealism. La Mandoline ou La Cigale is emblematic of works from this period of Richier's oeuvre wherein she fused the bodily forms of humans and insects, creating figures of a hybrid nature. Richier began creating these types of hybrid forms in the 1940s and would continue to return to the theme through the end of her career.
Brassaï, The Artist in Her Studio, 1955. barcode: 29669028_FIG
Please note this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Françoise Guiter.
In the years after the Second World War, Germaine Richier abandoned her realist style that she had learned from Rodin's assistant, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, to create striking sculptures that fuse the formal language of expressionism with the dark whimsy of Surrealism. La Mandoline ou La Cigale is emblematic of works from this period of Richier's oeuvre wherein she fused the bodily forms of humans and insects, creating figures of a hybrid nature. Richier began creating these types of hybrid forms in the 1940s and would continue to return to the theme through the end of her career.
Brassaï, The Artist in Her Studio, 1955. barcode: 29669028_FIG