Lot Essay
Galería Freites will include this work in their forthcoming Baltasar Lobo catalogue raisonné under the archive number 6859.
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Details
Baltasar Lobo (1910–1993)
Le chevalier
signed and numbered 'Lobo 4/8' (on the front, lower left); inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back, lower left)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 32 1/4 in. (82 cm.)
Conceived in 1962; this bronze cast by Susse Fondeur in 1996 in a numbered edition of eight, plus four artist's proofs
Le chevalier
signed and numbered 'Lobo 4/8' (on the front, lower left); inscribed with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back, lower left)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 32 1/4 in. (82 cm.)
Conceived in 1962; this bronze cast by Susse Fondeur in 1996 in a numbered edition of eight, plus four artist's proofs
Provenance
Atelier of the artist, Paris.
Galería Freites, Caracas.
Private collection, Caracas.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Galería Freites, Caracas.
Private collection, Caracas.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
V. Bollmann-Müller & J.-E. Müller, Lobo, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1985, no. 186 (another cast illustrated).
G. Diehl & F. Palomero, Baltazar Lobo, préserver la permanence de la sculpture: un problème primordial, Caracas, 2005, p. 51 (another cast illustrated).
G. Diehl & F. Palomero, Baltazar Lobo, préserver la permanence de la sculpture: un problème primordial, Caracas, 2005, p. 51 (another cast illustrated).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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