Germaine Richier (1904-1959)

L'Echiquier, petit (Le Roi, La Reine, Le Cavalier, Le Fou, La Tour)

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Germaine Richier (1904-1959)
L'Echiquier, petit (Le Roi, La Reine, Le Cavalier, Le Fou, La Tour)
signed, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark 'G. Richier 8/8 L. Thinot, fondeur Paris ' (bottom left)
bronze with dark patina
18½ x 45 x 32 in. (46.9 x 114.3 x 81.2 cm.)
executed in 1955, this work is number this work is number 8/8 from an edition of 12: 1/8 to 8/8, HC1, HC2, HC3 and EA.

Estate of the artist.
Jan Krugier, acquired from the above.

G. Selz, "Germaine Richier, une des rares femmes sculpteurs" in Revue Elle, Paris, 1 October 1956.
G. Limbour, "Le pouce de Germaine Richier" in France Observateur, Paris, 1 November 1956.
M. Conil-Lacoste, "Germaine Richier ou la confusion des règnes" in Cahiers du sud, Marseille, February 1957, pp. 307-311.
Y. Taillandier, "Germaine Richier" in Connaissance des arts, no. 77, July 1958, p. 24 (another version illustrated in color).
G. Limbour, "Personnages imaginaires" in Lettres nouvelles, Paris, 17 June 1959, pp. 31-32.
J. Cassou, "Richier," Sculpteurs Modernes, Paris, 1961.
H. Debrunner, "Bedrohung und Verwandlung des Schönen: Germaine Richier im Kunsthaus" in Zürichsee Zeitung, Zürich, 22 June 1963, no. 144.
H. Dannecker, "Die Visionen der Germaine Richier: zu der grossen Ubersicht über ihr Werk in Zürich" in Kieler Nachrichten, Zürich, 5 July 1963.
H. Bellet, "L'Echiquier, grand" in Germaine Richier, rétrospective, exh. cat., Paris, 1996, p. 187.
F. Guiter, "Biographie" in Germaine Richier, rétrospective, exh. cat., Paris, 1996, pp. 108-109.
F. Guiter, "L'Echiquier, petit (Chessboard, small version), 1955", Richier, exh. cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, October 2006-February 2007, p. 102-103.
F. Guiter, "Biography", Richier, exh. cat., Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, October 2006-February 2007, p. 131-135.

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Germaine Richier, October-December 1956, no. 75 (another example exhibited).
Boston, Boston University School of Fine & Applied Arts, Sculpture by Germaine Richier, January-February 1959, no. 7 (another example exhibited).
Château d'Antibes, Musée Grimaldi, Germaine Richier, July-September 1959, no. 35 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Galerie Creuzevault, Germaine Richier, July-September 1959, no. 22 (another example exhibited).
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Antongonismes 2 L'Objet, April 1962, no. 421 (another example exhibited).
Kunsthaus Zürich, Germaine Richier, June-July 1963, no. 116 (another example exhibited).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier: Rétropective, April-June 1996, pp. 154-155, no. 82 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, September-November 1997, pp. 138-139, no. 83 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Institut Valencià de Arte Moderno, El Fuego Baja las Cenizas: de Picasso a Basquiat, May-August 2005, pp. 254-255 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Germaine Richier, October 2006-February 2007, pp. 102-103 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
New York, Jan Krugier Gallery in collaboration with Richard L. Feigen & Co., Drawing in Space, November 2007-March 2008, no. 38 (illustrated in color).

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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 signed photocopy of the certificate of authenticity, signed by Françoise Guiter.

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