GEORGE MINNE (1866-1941)

Lot 742
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Lot 742 | GEORGE MINNE (1866-1941)
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GEORGE MINNE (1866-1941)

Le petit porteur de reliques

signed 'MINNE' (on the right of the base)

bronze with dark brown patina

Height: 25 7⁄8 in. (65.8 cm.)

Conceived in 1897; this bronze version cast at a later date





Provenance

The Piccadilly Gallery, London.

Acquired from the above by the late owner, circa 1970.



Literature

L. van Puyvelde, George Minne, Brussels, 1930, no. 24 (another cast illustrated, pl. 22).

A. de Ridder, George Minne, Monographieën over Belgische Kunst, Antwerp, 1947, no. 9 (plaster version illustrated).

I. Rossi-Schrimpf, George Minne: Das Frühwerk und seine Rezeption in Deutschland und Österreich bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, Weimar, 2012, p. 78 (plaster version illustrated, pl. 16).



Exhibited

London, The Piccadilly Gallery, George Minne and Henry van de Velde, October 1970, no. 6.

Stanford University, The Cantor Arts Center, The Perfume of Sadness: Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection, April-July 2006.

Stanford University, The Cantor Arts Center (on extended loan, 2005-2021).
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