Gyula HALASZ dit BRASSAI (1899-1984 )The Siren, 1965Gilt bronze proof. Monogrammed and numbered 1/6 Founded by Émile Godard . Black marble base. Height: 19.5 cmTotal height : 27 cmProvenance: Collection of the art critic Gaston Diehl . Gift of the artist in 1972. this work was most probably offered to Gaston Diehl during the exhibition Brassaï: Sculptures, Tapestries, Drawings at the Galerie Verrière in Paris in 1972, where the critic had written the preface of the catalogue . We would like to thank Mr. Patrice Sonnenberg for the information he gave us.