CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - THE SCULPTURE ROOM César Baldaccini dit CÉSAR (1921-1998) L'Hippocampe dit Le Caméléon [1957], 1991 Bronze proof with brown patina. Signed, numbered "HC2" and founder's mark "Blanchet Fondeur" on the tail. 20 x 34 x 15 cm Provenance: Colette Creuzevault Colette Creuzevault Collection, Paris. By descent. Exhibition : César, Galerie Yoshii, Tokyo, 1982, catalog, no. 7, original iron reproduced. Bibliography: - François Pluchart, Transmondia,1966, IV, original iron reproduced. - Denyse Durand-Ruel, César, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1947-1964, Paris, Éditions de La Différence, 1994, no. 191, original iron reproduced pp. 168-169. The welded iron was produced in 1957. An original bronze edition of 12 copies was begun in 1972, executed by the Valsuani foundry for the first 10 copies, before being completed by the Blanchet-Landowski foundry in 1991 for the last 2, under César's supervision and intervention at the foundry. This work was the inspiration for "Le Gobi", 1991. This work is registered in the Denyse Durand-Ruel Archives under no. 402.