CHANA ORLOFF (1888-1969)

A CEMENT CAST OF A TORSO OF A NAKED WOMAN, DESIGNED 1912

Details

CHANA ORLOFF (1888-1969)
A Cement Cast of a Torso of a Naked Woman, designed 1912
48 3/8 in. (123 cm.) high
signed and dated Chana Orloff 1918

Provenance

Romaine Brooks, Paris.
With Anne-Sophie Duval, Paris, acquired from the estate of Romaine Brooks.
Sotheby's, Paris, Collection Karl Lagerfeld, 15 May 2003, lot 185.

Lot Essay

cf. F. Marcilhac, Chana Orloff catalogue raisonée de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1991, p. 17 for another cast in cement (possibly the present lot), p. 203, no. 5 for a bronze cast.

H. Gamzu (ed.) et al., Chana Orloff, Brescia, 1980, p. 33, pl. 5 for another cast of this sculpture.

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