CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - LA CHAMBRE César Baldaccini dit CÉSAR (1921-1998) Pigeon [1957], 1972 Bronze proof with brown patina. Signed, numbered "4/8" and founder's stamp "A. Valsuani - Cire Perdue" on the terrace. 26 x 23 x 23 cm Provenance: Colette Creuzevault Collection Colette Creuzevault, Paris. By descent. Exhibitions : - César, La question de la Sculpture, Musée Picasso, Antibes, July 21 - September 30, 1978, catalog, no. 11, original iron reproduced on p. 21. - César, Galerie Yoshii, Tokyo, 1982, catalog, no. 1, original iron reproduced. - César, Bronzes, Musée de la Poste, Paris, February 2 - March 10, 1984, catalog, no. 47, original iron reproduced. Bibliography Denyse Durand-Ruel, César, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1947-1964, Paris, Éditions de La Différence, 1994, no. 186, original iron reproduced pp. 166-167. 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 1988 for the last 2, under César's supervision and intervention at the foundry. This work is registered in the Denyse Durand-Ruel Archives under no. 1220.