ID 1059648
Lot 742 | GEORGE MINNE (1866-1941)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
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).
| Artist: | George Minne (1866 - 1941) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Artist: | George Minne (1866 - 1941) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
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