CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - LE SALON, 1st FLOOR - Lot 9

CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - LE SALON, 1st FLOOR César Baldaccini dit CÉSAR (1921-1998) Raven [1955], 1988 Bronze proof with brown patina. Signed on the terrace. Numbered "HC3" and stamped "Landowski - Cire Perdue" on the edge of the terrace. 53 x 23 x 25 cm Provenance: Colette Creuzevault Collection Colette Creuzevault, Paris. By descent. Exhibitions : - Accrochage, Galerie Henri Creuzevault, Paris, 1956, the original iron exhibited. - Burri : peintures - César : sculptures, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, November 6 - December 8, 1956, original iron on display. - L'Animal : de Lascaux à Picasso, Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, June 15, 1976 - January 7, 1977, original iron on display. - César, La question de la Sculpture, Musée Picasso, Antibes, July 21 - September 30 1978, catalog, no. 12, original iron reproduced on p. 22. - César, Galerie Yoshii, Tokyo, 1982, catalog, no. 11, original iron reproduced. - César, Bronzes, Musée de la Poste, Paris, February 2 - March 10, 1984, catalog, no. 31, original iron reproduced. Bibliography: - Pierre Restany, César, Paris, Éditions André Sauret, 1975, no. 115, original iron reproduced on p. 141. - Pierre Restany, César, New York, Éditions H.N. Abrams, 1976, no. 115, original iron reproduced on p. 141. - FIAC, Grand Palais - Galerie Colette Creuzevault, Paris, original iron reproduced p. 67. - Jean-Charles Hachet, César ou les métamorphoses d'un grand art, Paris, Éditions Varia, 1989, no. 136, original iron reproduced on p. 70. - Denyse Durand-Ruel, César, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1947-1964, Paris, Éditions de La Différence, 1994, no. 89, original iron reproduced pp. 94-95. The welded iron was produced in 1955. An original bronze edition of 12 copies was begun in 1974 and executed by the Valsuani foundry for the first 9 copies, before being completed by the Blanchet-Landowski foundry in 1988 for the last 3, under César's supervision and intervention at the foundry. This work is registered in the Denyse Durand-Ruel Archives under no. 466.