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Property from the Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall
Evelyn Annenberg Hall is recognized as one of New York City's most dedicated and dynamic philanthropists and patrons of the arts. Together with her brother Walter and six sisters, she established a proud record of charitable giving that will stand for generations to come.
For more than fifty years Mrs. Hall donated artworks to museums around the country. Closest to her heart was the Museum of Modern Art, where she became a trustee in 1979 and a member of its International Council. During this time she also made diverse gifts to the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was elected a Benefactor of that museum, and she endowed the Jaffe-Friede Art Gallery at Dartmouth College and funded a scholarship in art history at Yale University. Mrs. Hall was deeply interested in the area of medicine and made numerous contributions to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2003 she was honored by the hospital with its award for excellence in philanthropy. Mrs. Hall was a donor to Mt. Sinai Hospital as well, and endowed a lecture series at its medical school.
Mrs. Hall had a love affair with New York City. Although she traveled widely and also had houses in Palm Beach and Newport, whenever she was away from New York she couldn't wait to return, regularly saying it was "the most exciting place on earth." From the late 1940's through the 1960's one of her greatest pleasures in the city she loved was to prowl the art galleries of that era with her second husband Bill Jaffe. During their marriage she and Mr. Jaffe built a formidable art collection that ranged from European paintings, sculpture and furniture to Chinese porcelain, Renaissance drawings and pre-Columbian artifacts. Christie's is honored to offer selections from this important collection.
Property from the Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall
Henri Laurens (1885-1954)
Femme accroupie
Details
Henri Laurens (1885-1954)
Femme accroupie
signed with monogram 'HL' (on the top of the base)
terracotta
Height: 8¼ in. (21 cm.)
Conceived in 1928; this terracotta cast during the artist's lifetime
Femme accroupie
signed with monogram 'HL' (on the top of the base)
terracotta
Height: 8¼ in. (21 cm.)
Conceived in 1928; this terracotta cast during the artist's lifetime
Provenance
Gallerie Simon, Paris.
Curt Valentin, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1955.
Curt Valentin, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1955.
Literature
W. Hofmann, The Sculpture of Henri Laurens, New York, 1970, p. 123 (stone version illustrated).