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CHANA ORLOFF(1888-1968)Oiseau 14-18
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CHANA ORLOFF (1888-1968)
signed and numbered 'C Orloff 3/8' (on the back lower edge) and inscribed with the foundry mark 'Suisse Fondeur Paris' (on the left lower edge)
bronze with black patina
39 3/4 in (101 cm) (height)
Conceived circa 1914. This version cast by the Susse Foundry, Paris in 1983 in an edition of 8
Footnotes
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Ariane Tamir.
Provenance
Galerie Vallois, Paris.
Rosen Collection, Pennsylvania.
Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990.
Literature
W. George, 'Le Salon des Tuileries' in L'Amour de l'Art, 1924, p. 177 (cement version illustrated).
L. Werth, Chana Orloff, Paris, 1927 (another cast illustrated).
E. Des Courières, Chana Orloff, Trente reproductions de sculptures et dessins précédées d'une étude critique, Paris, 1927, p. 6 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Chana Orloff, Paris, 1963 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Chana Orloff, exposition rétrospective - 120 sculptures - 60 dessins, Tel-Aviv, 1969 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Chana Orloff, sculptures et dessins, Paris, 1971, no. 3 (plaster version illustrated).
A.-M. Belfort, Un siècle de bronzes animaliers 1875-1975, Paris, 1975 (plaster version illustrated).
Exh. cat., Chana Orloff, Paris, 1983 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Sculpture animalière de Pompon à César, Melun, 1989 (another cast illustrated).
F. Marcilhac, Chana Orloff, Paris, 1991, no. 92 (another cast illustrated pp. 78 & 223).
