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Calice de feu (Chalice of Fire)
Details
Alicia Penalba (1918-1982)
Calice de feu (Chalice of Fire)
signed and inscribed 'APENALBA E.A.' (along a lower edge)
bronze on a stone base
78 x 64 x 50cm.
Executed in 1958, this work is the artist's proof beside the edition of six
Calice de feu (Chalice of Fire)
signed and inscribed 'APENALBA E.A.' (along a lower edge)
bronze on a stone base
78 x 64 x 50cm.
Executed in 1958, this work is the artist's proof beside the edition of six
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1978.
Literature
H. Wescher, 'Regards sur la sculpture actuelle', in Cimaise, March-April 1958 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 36).
P. Guéguen, 'Sculpture d'aujourdhui', in: Aujourd'hui, art et architecture, no. 19, September 1958 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 17).
M. Seuphor, Alicia Penalba, Amriswil 1960, p. 22, no. 14 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged).
E. Jaguer, Poétique de la Sculpture: Sculpture 1950-1960, Paris 1960, p. 8 (another from the edition illustrated).
P. Waldberg, 'Alicia Penalba', in XXe Siècle, vol. XXIII, no. 17, December 1961 (another from the edition illustrated).
P. Guéguen, 'Sculpture d'aujourdhui', in: Aujourd'hui, art et architecture, no. 19, September 1958 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 17).
M. Seuphor, Alicia Penalba, Amriswil 1960, p. 22, no. 14 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged).
E. Jaguer, Poétique de la Sculpture: Sculpture 1950-1960, Paris 1960, p. 8 (another from the edition illustrated).
P. Waldberg, 'Alicia Penalba', in XXe Siècle, vol. XXIII, no. 17, December 1961 (another from the edition illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Alicia Penalba, 1960 (another from the edition exhibited).
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Penalba, 1964, no. 19 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum and Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich.
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Kunst am bau, 1966 (another from the edition exhibited).
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Lam, Matta, Penalba: Totems et tabous, 1968, no. 11 (another from the edition exhibited).
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de Leverkusen: Peintures, sculptures, mobiles, 1968, no. 10, unpaged (another from the edition exhibited).
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Penalba, 1964, no. 19 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum and Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich.
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Kunst am bau, 1966 (another from the edition exhibited).
Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Lam, Matta, Penalba: Totems et tabous, 1968, no. 11 (another from the edition exhibited).
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de Leverkusen: Peintures, sculptures, mobiles, 1968, no. 10, unpaged (another from the edition exhibited).
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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