


GEORGE MINNE (1866-1941)
The Agenouillé of the fountain
Bronze with brown patina
Signed and numbered on 8 with the founder's stamp 'C. Valsuani/Cire/Perdue'.
Posthumous casting after a model created in 1895-1898 and enlarged
Bronze with dark brown patina, signed and numbered of 8 with the 'C. Valsuani/Cire/Perdue' foundry mark, posthumous cast after a model created in 1895-1898 and enlarged
144 cm - 56 3/4 in.
Provenance
- Sale, Art moderne, Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, Hôtel Drouot-Montaigne, June 6, 2002, lot 22
- Private collection, France (acquired in previous sale)
Bibliography
- Leo van Puyvelde, George Minne, Brussels: Éditions des "Cahiers de Belgique", S.A., 1930, p. 77, described under no. 26 (another bronze copy, h. 78, and a marble copy, h. 78 cm, titled L'Agenouillé de la fontaine) and reproduced on pl. 24 and 25 (a marble copy, h. 78 cm).
- André de Ridder, George Minne, Antwerp: de Sikkel, 1947, p. 16, no. 14 (the bronze example, in the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, titled De geknielde aan de bron).
Related works
George Minne (1866-1941), L'Agenouillé de la fontaine, bronze, signed with the founder's stamp 'C. Valsuani/Cire/Perdue', 147 cm, private collection, in. Sale, Modern Belgian Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, Christie's, London, October 20, 1988, lot 28
"Isn't La Fontaine's Agenouillé, repeated five times on the curbstone of a well, the most perfect plastic image of the soul reflecting on itself, indulging in meditation and afraid of the tumult of life?"
Leo Van Puyvelde, 1930
The Agenouillé of the fountain
Bronze with brown patina
Signed and numbered on 8 with the founder's stamp 'C. Valsuani/Cire/Perdue'.
Posthumous casting after a model created in 1895-1898 and enlarged
Bronze with dark brown patina, signed and numbered of 8 with the 'C. Valsuani/Cire/Perdue' foundry mark, posthumous cast after a model created in 1895-1898 and enlarged
144 cm - 56 3/4 in.
Provenance
- Sale, Art moderne, Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, Hôtel Drouot-Montaigne, June 6, 2002, lot 22
- Private collection, France (acquired in previous sale)
Bibliography
- Leo van Puyvelde, George Minne, Brussels: Éditions des "Cahiers de Belgique", S.A., 1930, p. 77, described under no. 26 (another bronze copy, h. 78, and a marble copy, h. 78 cm, titled L'Agenouillé de la fontaine) and reproduced on pl. 24 and 25 (a marble copy, h. 78 cm).
- André de Ridder, George Minne, Antwerp: de Sikkel, 1947, p. 16, no. 14 (the bronze example, in the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, titled De geknielde aan de bron).
Related works
George Minne (1866-1941), L'Agenouillé de la fontaine, bronze, signed with the founder's stamp 'C. Valsuani/Cire/Perdue', 147 cm, private collection, in. Sale, Modern Belgian Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, Christie's, London, October 20, 1988, lot 28
"Isn't La Fontaine's Agenouillé, repeated five times on the curbstone of a well, the most perfect plastic image of the soul reflecting on itself, indulging in meditation and afraid of the tumult of life?"
Leo Van Puyvelde, 1930
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