Sale: 570 / Evening Sale, June 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000044
Lot 125000044
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125000044
Henri Laurens
Petite cariatide, 1930.
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Estimate:
€ 100,000 - 150,000
$ 105,000 - 157,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Petite cariatide. 1930.
Bronze with a dark brown patina.
Copy 2/6 (plus one copy for the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris). With the artist's monogram, the number and the foundry stamp “C. Valsuani Cire Perdue” on the back of the plinth. Height: 45 cm (17.7 in). Of which the base: 25,7 x 21,7 x 5 cm (10,1 x 8,5 x 2 in).
Following the artist's wish, his son Claude Laurens bequeathed a large ensemble of bronze casts embossed MN (Musée nationaux), to the French national museums in 1967, a copy of this bronze is therefore also part of the collection of the Musée national d'art moderne, Paris (today in the Musée Grenoble). [CH].
• Henri Laurens' bulky and expressive sculptures were formative to Modernism.
• The representation of the female body plays an absolutely outstanding role in his entire artistic work.
• “Petite cariatide” combines Laurens's cubist approaches and the neoclassical linearity that he brought to life in his work.
• Laurens' sensual, rounded and reduced forms, as well as the compact, harmonious composition imbue this work with a timeless beauty.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (after 1957, with the gallery's label inside the plinth).
Berthold and Else Beitz Collection, Essen.
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: Museum Folkwang, Essen (permanent loan 2015-2025).
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Each a different copy:
Henri Laurens. Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, Grand-Palais, Paris, May to August 1967, cat. no. 20 (illustrated)
Braque et Laurens. Quarante années d'amitié, L'Annonciade, Musée de Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez, June 6 to October 8, 2017.
LITERATURE: Werner Hofmann, Henri Laurens. Das plastische Werk, Stuttgart 1970, p. 218 (different copy illustrated).
"I strive for mature forms. I want to make them be so rich and round that there is nothing more to add.”
Henri Laurens, Une déclaration de Henri Laurens, in: Amis de l'art, June 26, 1951, Neue Folge, 1, p. 3, quoted in: Christiane Righetti (ed.), exhib. cat. Léger – Laurens. Tête-à-Tête, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Ostfildern-Ruit 2012, p. 34f.
Bronze with a dark brown patina.
Copy 2/6 (plus one copy for the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris). With the artist's monogram, the number and the foundry stamp “C. Valsuani Cire Perdue” on the back of the plinth. Height: 45 cm (17.7 in). Of which the base: 25,7 x 21,7 x 5 cm (10,1 x 8,5 x 2 in).
Following the artist's wish, his son Claude Laurens bequeathed a large ensemble of bronze casts embossed MN (Musée nationaux), to the French national museums in 1967, a copy of this bronze is therefore also part of the collection of the Musée national d'art moderne, Paris (today in the Musée Grenoble). [CH].
• Henri Laurens' bulky and expressive sculptures were formative to Modernism.
• The representation of the female body plays an absolutely outstanding role in his entire artistic work.
• “Petite cariatide” combines Laurens's cubist approaches and the neoclassical linearity that he brought to life in his work.
• Laurens' sensual, rounded and reduced forms, as well as the compact, harmonious composition imbue this work with a timeless beauty.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (after 1957, with the gallery's label inside the plinth).
Berthold and Else Beitz Collection, Essen.
Ever since family-owned.
EXHIBITION: Museum Folkwang, Essen (permanent loan 2015-2025).
- -
Each a different copy:
Henri Laurens. Exposition de la donation aux Musées Nationaux, Grand-Palais, Paris, May to August 1967, cat. no. 20 (illustrated)
Braque et Laurens. Quarante années d'amitié, L'Annonciade, Musée de Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez, June 6 to October 8, 2017.
LITERATURE: Werner Hofmann, Henri Laurens. Das plastische Werk, Stuttgart 1970, p. 218 (different copy illustrated).
"I strive for mature forms. I want to make them be so rich and round that there is nothing more to add.”
Henri Laurens, Une déclaration de Henri Laurens, in: Amis de l'art, June 26, 1951, Neue Folge, 1, p. 3, quoted in: Christiane Righetti (ed.), exhib. cat. Léger – Laurens. Tête-à-Tête, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Ostfildern-Ruit 2012, p. 34f.
125000044
Henri Laurens
Petite cariatide, 1930.
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Estimate:
€ 100,000 - 150,000
$ 105,000 - 157,500
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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