CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - THE SCULPTURE ROOM - Lot 45

CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - THE SCULPTURE ROOM César Baldaccini dit CÉSAR (1921-1998) Plaque dite Plaque Maillard [1959], 1988 Bronze proof with brown patina. Signed, dated, numbered "HC3" and founder's mark "Landowski Fondeur" on the terrace. 42 x 18 x 12 cm Provenance: Colette Creuzevault Collection Colette Creuzevault, Paris. By descent. Exhibitions : - Group exhibition, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, 1955, the original iron exhibited. - Group exhibition Magie de l'objet. Peintures-Sculptures-Objets, Galerie Henri Creuzevault, Paris, February 15 - April 10, 1965, original iron exhibited. - César, Fers 1950-1960 Bronzes, Galerie Henri Creuzevault, Paris, November 3 - December 22, 1971, catalog, original iron on display. - César, Galerie Yoshii, Tokyo, 1982, catalog, no. 15, original iron on display. Bibliography: - Jean-Charles Hachet, César ou les métamorphoses d'un grand art, Paris, Éditions Varia, 1989, no. 33, original iron reproduced on p. 30. - Denyse Durand-Ruel, César, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1947-1964, Paris, Éditions de La Différence, 1994, no. 281, original iron reproduced pp. 244-245. The welded iron was made in 1959. An original bronze edition of 12 was begun in 1969, the first 10 by the Valsuani foundry, the last 2 by the Blanchet-Landowski foundry from 1988. This work is registered in the Denyse Durand-Ruel Archives under no. 379.