GERMAINE RICHIER (1902-1959)

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Los 225 | GERMAINE RICHIER (1902-1959)
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GERMAINE RICHIER (1902-1959)
L'Orage (The Storm)
signed, numbered and with the foundry mark 'G. Richier 3/6 SUSSE FONDEUR PARIS 3/6' (on the base)
bronze with dark patina
75 x 28 ½ x 20 ¼in. (195 x 72.5 x 54.4cm.)
Conceived in 1947-1948, this work is number 3/6 from the original edition that comprises eleven copies, from 1/6 to 6/6 and HC1, HC2, HC3, EA, 0/6




Provenance

Galerie Henri Creuzevault, Paris.
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium and thence by descent.



Literature

J. Bouret, ‘Germaine Richier’, in Arts, 29 October 1948.
Derrière le Miroir, no. 13, Germaine Richier, exh. cat., Paris, Galerie Maeght, 1948, no. 17 (another cast illustrated, unpaged).
G. Limbour, ‘Forêts en bronze’, in Actions, 24-30 November 1948, no. 217 (another cast illustrated, p. 10).
G. Limbour, 'Visite à un sculpteur: Germaine Richier', in Arts de France, 1948, no. 17-18.
R. de Solier, ‘Germaine Richier, la scultrice del’ Uragano’, in La Biennale di Venezia, no 7, January 1952, pp. 35-39 A. Pieyre de Mandiargues, ‘Germaine Richier’, in Le Disque vert, July-August 1953, 1re année, no. 5, pp. 97-100.
R. de Solier, ‘Germaine Richier', in Germaine Richier, Bissière, Bâle 1954. P. Francastel, ‘La nouvelle sculpture: Richier Germaine’, in Les Sculpteurs célèbres, Paris 1954, pp. 316-320 and 399.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 9 Jaar: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1945-’54, 1954 (another cast illustrated, p. 42).
J. Cassou, B.Dorival and G. Homolle, ‘Richier Germaine’, in Musée national d’art moderne: catalogue-guide, Paris 1954.J. Grenier, ‘Germaine Richier, sculpteur du terrible’, in L’Oeil, September 1955, no. 9, pp. 26-31 (another cast illustrated).
G. Richier, ‘Richier’, in The New Decade. 22 European Painters and Sculptors, New York 1955.W. George, ‘Germaine Richier’, in Prisme des arts, April 1956, no. 2.
D. Chevalier, ‘Un grand sculpteur: Germaine Richier’, in Prestige français et Mondanités, September 1956, no. 19, pp. 60-65.
D. Rolin, ‘Germaine Richier ou la main d’ombre’, in Carrefour, October 1956.
D. Chevalier, ‘Sculpture: dans son atelier, vaste forêt de plâtres et de bronzes, Germaine Richier, chef d’école, sculpte les grands mythes sylvestres’, in Femme, October-November 1956, pp. 81-83.
G. Limbour, ‘Le pouce de Germaine Richier’, in France Observateur, 15 November 1956 (another cast illustrated).
P. Chatard, ‘Sculpture: Germaine Richier’, in Nouvelle gauche, November-December 1956.
R. Barotte, ‘Les expositions - Au musée d’Art moderne: Germaine Richier, sculpteur de l’inaccessible’, in Plaisir de France, November 1956.
B. Butler, ‘Paris’, in Arts, December 1956, no. 31, pp. 14-16.
A. Pieyre de Mandiargues, ‘Art et humour au XXe siècle: l’humour cruel de Germaine Richier’, in XXe siècle, January 1957, no. 8.
A. Watt, ‘Paris commentary’, in The Studio, January 1957, no. 153, pp. 22-25.
Y. Taillandier, ‘Germaine Richier’, in Connaissance des arts, Paris, July 1958, no. 77, pp. 24-29.
G. Limbour, ‘Personnages imaginaires’, in Lettres nouvelles, Paris, 17 June 1959, pp. 31-32.
M. Seuphor, La sculpture de ce Siècle, Neuchâtel 1959, p. 364 (another cast illustrated, p. 321, incorrectly dated ‘1949’).
R. Charmet, ‘Germaine Richier: une œuvre d’une humanité déchirée’, in Arts, 5-11 August 1959.
C. Roger-Marx, ‘Cette héritière inspirée des grands maîtres: Germaine Richier’, in Le Figaro littéraire, 8 August 1959.
R. Couturier, ‘Adieu à Germaine Richier: La force de son œuvre’, in Tribune de Lausanne, 9 August 1959.
A. Giacometti, ‘Adieu à Germaine Richier: Assis parmi ses sculptures’, in Tribune de Lausanne, 9 August 1959.
M.-H. Vieira da Silva, ‘Adieu à Germaine Richier: Son atelier était plein d’une étrange musique’, in Tribune de Lausanne, 9 August 1959.
J. Selz, ‘Hommage à Germaine Richier’, in Sens plastique, November 1959, no. IX.
A. Pieyre de Mandiargues, Germaine Richier, Brussels 1959, pp. 3-8.
P. Schneider, ‘Art News from Paris: To Germaine Richier’, in Art News, Summer 1960, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 49-50, 66.
F. Hellens, ‘Les beaux-arts à Paris. La première exposition posthume de Germaine Richier’ in Les Beaux-Arts, no. 894, Paris 1960, p. 12.J. Cassou, Modern Sculptors: Germaine Richier, Paris 1961, p. 16 (studio view of another cast illustrated, p. 17).
G. Bazin, Le Monde de la Sculpture, Paris 1963, no. 1006 (titled ‘Orage’; another cast illustrated, p. 441).
G. Marchiori, Scultura francese moderna, Milan 1964, pp. 52 and 175, nos. LXII & LXIII (another cast illustrated, p. 152; detail illustrated in colour, p. 153).
H. Cingria, ‘Itinéraire provençal: Arles’, in Les Lettres françaises, 30 July - 5 August 1964.
A. Chamson, Germaine Richier, Arles 1964.M. Adelmann, ‘Les sculpteurs sous le regard d’Athéna’, in Les Nouvelles littéraires, 23 September 1965.
Germaine Richier 1904-1959, exh. cat., Paris, Galerie Creuzevault, 1966, p. 38 (another cast illustrated, p. 39).
B. Nebout, ‘Bourdelle, Giacometti, Germaine Richier au Ve Festival culturel’, in Paris Normandie, 3 October 1967.
B. Varia, ‘Un poète tragique’, in Secolul 20, Summer 1968, no. 3.
P. Cabane, ‘Calder à Boucicaut’, in Combat, Paris 1968.
E. Crispolti, ‘Germaine Richier’, in I maestri della scultura, 1968, no. 65, pp. 50-52.
M. Conil-Lacoste, Nouveau dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Paris 1970, p. 262.
M. Conil-Lacoste, ‘Richier’, in Nouveau dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, 1970, pp. 262-264.
J. P. Hodin, Figurative Art since 1945, London 1971, p. 46, no. 35 (another cast illustrated, p. 42).
A. M. Hammacher, L'Evolution de la Sculpture moderne, Paris 1971, no. 263 (another cast illustrated, p. 263).
G. Bazin, ‘En deçà et au-delà de la sculpture’ in Le Monde de la sculpture des origines à nos jours, Paris 1972, pp. 84-87 and 441.A. Petersen and P. Brattinga, Sandberg: A Documentary, Amsterdam 1975, pp. 53, 87, 157, 170, 171, 181.
L’animal de Lascaux à Picasso, exh. cat., Paris, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 1976-1977, pp. 13-14.
E. Lucie-Smith, ‘Richier, Germaine’, in L’Art d’aujourd’hui, 1977, p. 508.
C. Millet, ‘Germaine Richier, la gran época de la escultura’, in Guadalimar, December 1978, no. 37.
P. Restany, ‘Germaine Richier: Le grand art de la statuaire’, in L'Oeil, no. 279, October 1978 (another cast illustrated, p. 57).
Lamarche-Vadel, ‘Germaine Richier’, in ‘Cimaise’, no. 138-9, October-November 1978.
J. Michel, ‘Sculpture. Corps pétris de Germaine Richier’, in Le Monde, 4 October 1978.
Brassaï, Germaine Richier Les Artistes de ma vie, Paris 1982, p. 194.
I. Jianou, G. Xurigura and A. Lardera, ‘Richier Germaine’, in La Sculpture moderne, 1982, p. 178.
G. Viatte, ‘Germaine Richier’, in Aftermath : France 1945-1954, New Images of Man, London 1982, pp. 69-70.J.-L. Daval, ‘Giacometti, Marini, Richier’, in L’Art en Europe: les années décisives 1945-1953, 1987, pp. 91-94.
J.-L. Ferrier and Y. Le Pichon, ‘Adieu à Germaine Richier: sculpture 1959’, in L’Aventure de l’art au XXe siècle,1988, p. 563.
É. Lebovici, ‘Lieux: L’atelier de Germaine Richier vu par Pierre-Olivier Deschamps’, in Beaux-Arts Magazine, November 1989, no. 73, pp. 94-99.
F. Montreynaud, ‘Germaine Richier: 1950-1969’, in Le XXe siècle des femmes, 1989, pp. 378 and 379.
R. Coudray, ‘Richier: les hybrides contre la mièvrerie’, in Montrer, July-August 1991, pp. 8-9.
I. Gale, ‘Inside the bronze menagerie: Germaine Richier’s sculptures were half-insect, half-human. Iain Gale visits the studio of an outsider in post-war Paris’, in The Independent, 8 June 1993.
P. Levy, ‘London’s Frenetic Gallery Scene: O’Keeffe sinks; Freud is missing’, in The Wall Street Journal Europe, 11 June 1993.
J. Beauffet, ‘Germaine Richier’, in L’Écriture griffée, 1993, pp. 163-171.
P. Daix, ‘Le nu, le modèle et le XXe siècle’, in Le Nu au XXe siècle, Paris 2001, pp. 15 and 251.S. Wilson, ‘Germaine Richier’, in Tate Modern – The Handbook, London 2000, pp. 102 and 216.C. Barbillon and S. Mouquin, ‘Germaine Richier ‘ in Écrire la sculpture. De l’Antiquité à Louise Bourgeois, Paris 2011, pp. 496-497.
R. Pincus-Witten, 'Germaine Richier', in Artforum, 2014.
Transmission – Transgression, exh. cat. Paris, Musée Bourdelle, 2018-2019, p. 196.
Germaine Richier, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2023, pp.136-137.F. Guiter, Biography Germaine Richier Life and work, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 1, 2024, pp. 42-44.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Germaine Richier, 1948, no. 17 (another cast exhibited).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 13 sculpteurs de Paris, 1948-1949 (riginal plaster exhibited).Venice, XXVI Biennale internazionale d'arte, 1952, p. 278, no. 144 (another cast exhibited).
Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Germaine Richier, Bissière, H. R. Schiess, Vieira da Silva, Raoul Ubac, 1954, pp. 5 and 10, no. 5 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 19).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 9 Jaar: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1945-’54, 1954 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 42).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vieira da Silva, Germaine Richier, 1955, p. 11, no. 42, (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 16)
Paris, musée national d’Art moderne, Germaine Richier, 1956, p. 10, no. 9 (another cast exhibited).
Nice, Palais de la Méditerrannée, Sculptures de Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Germaine Richier, Ossip Zadkine, 1958, no. 31, (another cast exhibited)Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 50 Jaar Verkenningen, 1959, no. 132 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
Antibes, Château Grimaldi, Germaine Richier, 1959, no. 71 (another cast exhibited).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Stedelijk Museum Visits Louisiana, 1961 (another cast exhibited).
Paris, Musée Rodin, Ire Exposition internationale de sculpture contemporaine, 1961, no. 141 (another cast exhibited).
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Germaine Richier: 1904-1959, 1963, pp. 6 and 19, no. 32 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 39).
Paris, Musée Rodin, Formes humaines. Ire Biennale internationale de sculpture contemporaine, 1964, no. 25, p. 119 (another cast exhibited).
Arles, Musée Réattu, Germaine Richier 1904-1959, 1964, p. 18, no. 18 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 9).
Paris, musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 81 Salon de l’Union des femmes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, décorateurs, 1965 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 30).
Athens, L’Office National du Tourisme Hellenique, Panathénées de la Sculpture Mondiale, 1965, p. 7 (another cast exhibited).
Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Dix ans d’art vivant, 1945-1955, 1966, p. 33, no. 127 (another cast exhibited, installation view illustrated, p. 68).
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Hôtel de Ville, un musée éphémère, 1967 (another cast exhibited, illustrated).
Paris, Musée Rodin, Formes Humaines: Troisième Biennale internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, 1968, no. 3 (another cast exhibited).
Brussels, Crédit communal, Exposition d'art - Formes et magie, 1971
Paris, Galerie Hervé Odermatt, Hommage à Germaine Richier, 1973, p. 9, no. 5 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 8).
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Aftermath: France 1945-1954, New Images of Man, 1982, no. 42 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 69).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Un Musée éphémère: Collections privées françaises 1945-1985, 1986, p. 161, no. 63 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 119).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, 1988, p. 33, no. 9 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 15).
Saint-Étienne, Musée d’Art Moderne, L’art en Europe, les années décisives: 1945-1953, 1987-1988, p. 318, no. 63 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 93).
Paris, Pavillon des Arts, Saint-Germain-des-Prés 1945-1950, 1989-1990, p. 239, no. 317 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 197).
Paris, Galerie Odermatt, Hommage à Germaine Richier, 1992, pp. 28 and 78 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 29).
London, Tate Gallery, Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism, 1945-1955, 1993, pp.161-162 and 226, no. 96 (another cast exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 164).
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Galerie Mansart, Jean Cassou, 1897-1986, un musée imaginé, 1995, p. 222, no. 356 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 105).
Antibes, Musée Picasso, L’envolée, l’enfouissement, 1995-1996, pp. 88 and 135 (another cast exhibited and illustrated, p. 89). This exhibition later travelled to Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Musée d’Art Moderne).
Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions privées, 1995-1996, p. 272, no. 8 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 277).
Paris, Foundation Maeght, Germaine Richier Retrospective, 1996, pp. 76, 78, 204, no. 30 (another cast exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 77; detail illustrated in colour, p. 79).
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, 1997, pp. 29, 36, 44, 46, 50, 96 and 191, no. 35 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 95; studio view illustrated, p. 156).
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, e Nu au XXe siècle, 2000, pp. 170 and 274, no. 127 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 171).
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Return of the Real - A selection from the Daniel Hechter art collection, 2001, no. 68 (another cast exhibited) Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Richier, 2006-2007, p. 40 (another cast exhibited, detail and studio view illustrated, p. 90; illustrated, p. 91).
Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Menschenbilder - Figur im Zeiten der Abstraktion (1945-1955), 2007 (another cast exhibited).
Barcelone, Fundacio Joan Miro, Un Cos sense limits, 2007, ( another cast exhibited).New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery and Galerie Perrotin, Germaine Richier - Sculptures 1934-1959, 2013, p. 159 (another cast exhibited, studio view illustrated, p. 48; illustrated in colour, p. 49).
Berne, Kunstmuseum Bern, Germaine Richier Rétrospective, 2013 –2014, p. 178 (another cast exhibited, illustrated, p. 122). This exhibition later travelled to Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim.
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Giacometti, Marini, Richier: La Figure Tourmentée, 2014, pp. 13-14, 64, 124 and 147, no. 32 (another cast exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 65).
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Germaine Richier : L'Ouragane, Abbaye du Mont Saint Michel, 2017 (another cast exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 111).
Paris, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Maryan, Germaine Richier, 2019 (another cast exhibited).
Antibes, Musée Picasso, Germaine Richier. La Magicienne, 2019, pp. 34, 72, 77, 83, 92, 94, 97, 98, 111 and 136 no. 93 (another cast exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 93; installation view illustrated, p. 87; installation view at Antibes, Musée Picasso illustrated, pp. 106 and 110).
Paris, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Germain Richier, 2023, pp. 21, 24, 29, 59, 64, 108, 146, 269 and 285 (another cast exhibited, studio view illustrated, p. 2; installation view at Musée national d’Art moderne in 1956 illustrated, pp. 30, 44, 46,138 and 297; partially illustrated, p. 136; illustrated, p. 137; installation view at le jardin de l’atelier in 1949 illustrated, p. 138; installation view at Château Grimaldi in 1959 illustrated, p. 138; installation view at Galerie Maeght in 1948 illustrated, p. 268). This exhibition later travelled to Montpellier, Musée Fabre.
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