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Germaine Richier

La Sauterelle, grande

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French | B. 1902 D. 1959

signed and numbered ‘G. Richier HC3’ on the base; stamped with the foundry mark ‘Fonderie de la Plaine cire perdue’ on the base
patinated bronze
137 x 99 x 176 cm (53 7/8 x 38 7/8 x 69 1/4 in.)
Executed in 1955-1956, this work is from an edition of 11.

Provenance

Indivision Germaine Richier, Paris
Morand & Morand Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, 3 November 2015, lot 3
Pierre Rochelois, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Christie's, Paris, 27 September 2021, lot 24
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Denys Chevalier, Un grand sculpteur: Germaine Richier, Prestige Français et Mondanités, Paris, 1956, no. 19
J. Pichard, Propos sur l'art: Germaine Richier au Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1956
Denys Chevalier, Sculpture encore dans son atelier, vaste forêt de plâtres et de bronzes, Germaine Richier, chef d'école, sculpte les grands mythes sylvestres, Femme, Paris, 1956
Georges Limbour, La vie des arts: Le Pouce de Germaine Richier, Paris, 1956
Créations et récréations de Germaine Richier, exh. cat., Musée Picasso, Château d'Antibes, Paris, 1959
René Barotte, Le journal des arts: Germaine Richier a mêlé la réalité à l'imaginaire, Paris, 4 August 1959, p. 6 (another example illustrated)
André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Germaine Richier, Brussels, 1959 (another example illustrated, pp. 3-8)
Germaine Richier 1902-1959, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959 (another example illustrated, pp. 129-33)
Jean Cassou, Richier, Collections Sculpteurs Modernes, Paris, 1961
Romuald Dor de la Souchère and Henri Creuzeuvault, Germaine Richier (1902-1959), Paris, 1966
Michel Conif-Lacoste, Richier, Nouveau Dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris, 1970 (another example illustrated, pp. 262-64)
Brassaï, Germaine Richier, Les artistes de ma vie, Paris, 1982 (another example illustrated, pp. 194-97)
Ionel Jianou, Gérard Xurigura and Aube Lardera, Richier Germaine, La sculpture moderne, Paris, 1982, p. 178 (another example illustrated)
L'objet de la chair, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1988 (another example illustrated, pp. 234-39)
Gilles Neret, Qu'est ce que la sculpture modene ? 30 ans d'art moderne, peintures et sculptures, Paris (detail illustrated, pp. 114-134)
Florence Montreynaud, Germaine Richier, l'Ouragane, le XXème siècle des femmes, Paris, 1989 (another example illustrated, pp. 366-67)
Françoise Guiter, Germaine Richier vie et œuvre catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre sculpté, Tome 1, Paris, 2024, p. 55 (plaster cast illustrated)

Literature

Paris, Musée d'art moderne de Paris, Germaine Richier, 10 October-9 December 1956, no. 7 (plaster cast exhibited)
Antibes, Musée Picasso, Germaine Richier, 17 July-30 September 1959, no. 105 (another example exhibited)
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Die Frau als Künstlerin, 2 July–31 August 1958 (another example exhibited)
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, 12 June-21 July 1963, no. 28 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Musée Rodin, Formes humaines, IIIème Biennale internationale de sculpture contemporaine, 2 May-3 June 1968, no. 2 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Fondation Mercedes-Benz, Le mouvement et la vie, November 1970-January 1971, no. 42 (another example exhibited, p. 66)
Paris, Grand Palais, Société des artistes indépendants, La femme corps et âme, 5 April-27 April 1986 (another example exhibited)
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, 13 August-25 September 1988, no. 37 (another example exhibited)
Albi, Musée Toulouse Lautrec, Les chefs d'oeuvre du Musée d'Art Moderne Louisiana, 25 June-11 September 1994 (another example exhibited)
Saint-Sebastien, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea, Les formes de l'abîme: le corps et sa représentation extrême en France, 1930-1960, 21 October 1994-15 January 1995 (another example exhibited)
Saint Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier, rétrospective, 5 April-30 September 1996, no. 89, p. 166 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 167-169)
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, 7 September-2 November 1997, no. 92 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 83)
New York, Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin, Germaine Richier, 27 February-12 April 2013, pp. 114 and 161 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 115-17)
Bern, Kunstmuseum; Mannheim, Kunsthalle, Germaine Richier, 25 November 2013-24 August 2014 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 128-129, front cover)
Paris, Musée national d’Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Germaine Richier, 1 March–12 June 2023 (another example exhibited)
Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Germaine Richier, Une rétrospective, 12 July–5 November 2023 (another example exhibited)

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