Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Modern & Contemporary Works of Art
Auction: November 2, 2014 2:00:00 PM EDT
Incised with the Artist's initials and dated 1908 along base, numbered 'E.A. 3/3' (an épreuve d'artiste, the edition was 7), with the E. GODARD CIRE PERDUE foundry stamp. Bronze with black patina.
Conceived in 1908.
height: 9 3/4 in. (24.7cm)
Provenance: Martha Schaeffer Fine Arts, New York, New York.
Private Collection, Norfolk, Virginia (acquired directly from the above in 1985).
Exhibited:
"Gargallo, Exposició d'Escultures," Sala Parès, Barçelona, December 7 - 21, 1934.
"Pablo Gargallo : Escultor. Exposición póstuma de sus Obra," Museo de Arte Moderno, Madrid, March 6 - 21, 1935.
"Jeunesse des Maîtres de la Sculpture du XX Siècle," Musée Rodin, Paris, 1959.
"Gargallo," Wilhelm Lehmbruk Museum, Duisburg, November 19 - December 31, 1966.
"Exposicion antologica de la obra de Gargallo," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, October 23 - December 5, 1971 (the exhibition traveled to Palacio de la Virreina, Barçelona in 1972).
"Pablo Gargallo," Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, January 10 - February 1, 1986, exhibition catalogue no. 4.
(all likely other examples from the edition).
Literature:
P. Courthion & P. Gargallo-Anguera, L'oeuvre complet de Pablo Gargallo, Editions du XXe Siècle, Paris, 1973, p. 130, no. 23 (another cast illustrated on pages 129 & 150).
note:
Pierrette Gargallo-Anguera has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture. Her photo-certificate dated October, 1985 accompanies this lot.