CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - LA SALLE À MANGER, 3rd FLOOR - Lot 38

CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - LA SALLE À MANGER, 3rd FLOOR Germaine RICHIER (1902-1959) Le Chardon (Soleil) also known as Le Chardon peint, on slate square, one-of-a-kind, 1959 Sculpture. Proof in polychrome painted bronze (over partial gilding). Signed G.Richier on the base of the sculpture, bearing an old label with a handwritten note under the bronze sculpture and a very incomplete label on the back of the slate part. Height sculpture only: 46 cm Slate base: 89 x 67 x 41 cm Provenance: Colette Creuzevault Collection Colette Creuzevault, Paris. By descent. Exhibition of our work : - Germaine Richier - Galerie Creuzevault, Paris, 1959. Our work exhibited at this event (no. 15). - Germaine Richier - Musée Grimaldi, Antibes, July 17 to September 30, 1959. Our work exhibited at this event (no. 19). - Richier - Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo, September 6-18, 1976; Contemporary Sculpture Center, Osaka, October 1-16, 1976. Our work exhibited at this event (no. 17). - Germaine Richier, Retrospective - Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, April 5 to June 25, 1996. Our work exhibited at this event (no. 108). - Germaine Richier - Centre Pompidou, Paris, March 1 to June 12, 2023; Musée Fabre, Montpellier, July 12 to November 5, 2023. Our work exhibited at this event. Bibliography of our work : - Germaine Richier - Catalogue de l'exposition éponyme, Éditions de la Galerie Creuzevault, Paris, 1959. Our work, referenced as number 15 in the catalog, reproduced in the book, unpaginated. - Germaine Richier - Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée Grimaldi, Antibes, (July 17 - September 30, 1959). Our work referenced under catalog number 19, unpaginated. - Germaine Richier 1904-1959 - Éditions de la Galerie Creuzevault, Paris, 1966. Our work, without its slate square, reproduced in the catalog, unpaginated. - Richier - Catalogue of the traveling exhibition organized at the Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo, (September 6 - 18, 1976); Contemporary Sculpture Center, Osaka (October 1 - 16, 1976). Our work referenced under catalog no. 17, unpaginated. - Germaine Richier, Rétrospective - Catalogue de l'exposition organisée à la Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence (5 avril - 25 juin 1996), Éditions Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1996. Our work, referenced under catalog number 108, reproduced on p. 211. - Germaine Richier - Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (September 7 - November 2, 1997), Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 1997. Our work reproduced on p. 38. - Germaine Richier, Retrospective - Catalogue of the exhibition held at Kunstmuseum, Bern (November 25, 2013 - April 6, 2014); Kunsthalle, Mannheim (May 9 - August 24, 2014), Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 2014. Our work reproduced on p. 54. - Ariane Coulondre (dir.) - Germaine Richier - Catalogue de l'exposition organisée au Centre Pompidou, Paris (1er mars - 12 juin 2023) ; au Musée Fabre, Montpellier (12 juillet - 5 novembre 2023), Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023. Our work reproduced on p. 236 and p. 239, on a photograph by Marta Rocher showing the work painted by the artist in her studio; the work also cited on p. 275 and 287.