Lot 24
Bronze, on stone base.
CHF | 40'000 / 60'000 |
EUR | 36'000 / 54'000 |
USD | 42'000 / 63'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 30'000
H 190 mm W 140 mm D 30 mm.
With base: H 250 mm W 140 mm D 70 mm.
Inscised numbering on the left side: 3/8.
Incised signature: Gonzalez, c.
Foundry stamp on right side: Cire / Valsuani/ Perdue.
Provenance:
Collection Roberta González (Daughter of the artist);
Galerie de France, Paris;
Swiss private property.
Solo exhibition (each different copy):
Touring exhibition 1970:
Julio González 1876-1942, les materiaux de son expression.
Paris, Galerie de France, 15th April - 15th June;
Essen, Museum Folkwang, July - August;
London, Tate Gallery, 15th September - 15th October;
Humlebeak, Louisiana Museum, November - December. No. 61;
Madrid, Galeria Ruiz-Castillo.
Julio González, October - November 1974;
Vienna, Galerie Ulysses.
Julio González, sculptures, drawings, 1977. No. 15;
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim.
Julio González 1876-1942, Sculpture and drawings,
30th March - 1st May 1977. No. 34;
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Julio González 1876-1942, 57 sculptures - 35 dessins,
13th November - 18th December 1977. No. 31;
New York, The Pace Gallery.
Julio González, Sculpture and Drawings,
2nd - 31st October 1981;
Basel, Galerie Beyeler.
González, Sculptures - Dessins, April - June 1982. No. 18.
Group exhibition (each different copy):
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle.
Katalanische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts,
June - August 1978. No. 15.
Certificate of authenticity:
Photo-certificate of authenticity by Galerie de France, Paris, 29th May 1998.
Literature:
Josephine Withers. Julio González, Sculpture in iron, Vol. II.
New York, University Press, 1978.
No. 61, full page illustration of the forged sculpture;
Jörn Merkert. Julio González, Catalogue raisonné des sculptures.
Milano, Electra, 1987. Page 231,
No. 211, full page illustration of the forged sculpture;
IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern.
Julio González, Les Colleccions de l'IVAM Nous Fons.
Valencia, 1993. Page 37, illustration of a different copy;
Exhibition catalog. Julio González, Sculpture and drawings.
Touring exhibiton May - November 2001: Recklinghausen, Bad Homburg, Heilbronn. Bonn, VG Bild-Kunst, 2001.
Page 149, full page illustration of a different copy.