CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - THE SCULPTURE ROOM - Lot 46

CHEZ COLETTE CREUZEVAULT - THE SCULPTURE ROOM César Baldaccini dit CÉSAR (1921-1998) Les Marionnettes [1955], 1988 - Triptych. Brown patina bronze proofs in a metal cage. Signed, numbered "HC3" and founder's mark "Blanchet Fondeur" on the terrace. 64 x 28 x 22 cm 69 x 28 x 22 cm 58 x 35 x 23 cm Provenance: Colette Creuzevault Collection Colette Creuzevault, Paris. By descent. Exhibitions : - César, Galerie Henri Creuzevault, Paris, 1957, original iron on display. - César 1955-1968, Galerie Madoura, Cannes, 1966, catalog, no. 9, original iron on display. - César, Rétrospective, Musée Cantini, Marseille, October-November 1966, catalog, no. 3, original iron on display. - César 1950-1980 bronzes, Galerie Henri Creuzevault, Paris, 1971, catalog, original iron on display. - César, Rétrospective des sculptures, Musée Rath, Geneva; Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble; Casino, Knokke-le-Zoute; Musée Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, February 26, 1976 - January 23, 1977, catalog, no. 3, original iron reproduced on p. 20. - César, Galerie Yoshii, Tokyo, 1982, catalog, no. 18, original iron on display. - César, Sculptures de 1955 à 1986, Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva, November 5, 1986 - January 31, 1987, catalog, no. 1, original iron reproduced on p. 7. - Rétrospective César, Musée Vielle Charité, Marseille, July 11 - September 12, 1993, catalog, original iron reproduced p. 63. Bibliography : - Douglas Cooper, César, Collection Artistes de notre temps, Éditions Douglas Cooper et Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, 1960, no. 2, original iron reproduced. - Édouard Jaguer, Poétique de la sculpture, Cahiers du Musée de Poche, Paris, Éditions Georges Fall, 1960, original iron reproduced on p. 64. - Pierre Faveton, César, B.A.G.M.F 1972, no. 36, III-IV, original iron reproduced p. 36. - Pierre Restany, César, Paris, Éditions de la Différence, 1988, original iron reproduced on p. 113. - Ave César, Fouquet's Magazine nº 2, 1990, original iron reproduced p. 39. - Denyse Durand-Ruel, César, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, 1947-1964, Paris, Éditions de La Différence, 1994, no. 84, original iron reproduced pp. 90-91. The welded iron was produced in 1955. An original bronze edition of 12 copies was begun in 1971 and executed by the Valsuani foundry for the first 10 copies, before being completed by the Blanchet-Landowski foundry from 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. 407.