136

JULIO GONZÁLEZ (1876-1942) Grande Vénus marked "González (c)"; numbered and stamped "1/9 C. Valsu...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD
JULIO GONZÁLEZ (1876-1942) Grande Vénus marked  González (c) ; numbered and stamped  1/9 C. Valsu...
JULIO GONZÁLEZ
(1876-1942)
Grande Vénus
marked "González (c)";
numbered and stamped
"1/9 C. Valsuani cire perdue"
(on the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
height: 13 1/2 in. (34 cm)
executed ca. 1936-1937
in an edition of nine
Estimate: $80,000-120,000 <p>Provenance
Galerie de France, Paris
Anon. sale: Christie's, London, June 25, 1991, lot 132
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner <p>Literature
Vicente Aguilera Cerni, Julio González, Rome, 1962 (another cast illustrated, pl. LVII)
Pierre Descargues, Julio González, Paris, 1971, p. 49 (another cast illustrated, p. 22) Josephine Withers, Julio González, Sculpture in Iron, New York, 1978, pp. 84, 166 and 167, no. 111 (illustrated, p. 85, fig. 103)
Margit Rowell, Julio Gonzáles, A Retrospective, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1983, p. 163 (another cast illustrated, no. 195)
Jorn Merkett, Julio González, Catalogue Raisonné des Sculptures, Milan,
1987, p. 248, no. 220 (another cast illustrated)