CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - L'ATELIER Germaine RICHIER (1902-1959) The Bird and the Bat Pencil on paper. Signed lower right. 48 x 34 cm Provenance: Colette Creuzevault Collection, Paris: Colette Creuzevault Collection, Paris. By descent. Exhibitions : - Germaine Richier, Academy of Arts, Berlin, September 7 - November 2, 1997 (label on mounting). - L'écriture griffée, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne, December 6, 1990 - February 25, 1991 (label on mounting). - Germaine Richier, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, April 5 - June 25, 1995 (label on montage). This is the study for the sculpture L'Oiseau, 1953, bronze print with dark patina, edition of 12, 28.5 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm, reproduced in Germaine Richier, Rétrospective, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, April 5 - June 25, 1996, catalog, no. 58, p. 120.