Radiolaire, circa 1977-1978
Gilded bronze
Signed and numbered: “4/6” on the base
Edition of 6 copies
Bocquel foundry stamp on the back
59cm×20×20cm (without base)
59cm×20×20cm (including base)
Provenance:
- Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Étude Paul Renaud, “Collection Jacques Hérold,” November 13, 1998, lot 147 (incorrect date [1945])
- Collection Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, Paris
Exhibition:
Marseille, Musée Cantini, “Jacques Hérold (1910-1987) et le surréalisme,” October 10, 2010 - January 17, 2011, reproduced in the catalog under no. 154 p.151 and described p.181 (incorrect date [1945])
Bibliography: S. Alexandrian, “Jacques Hérold, étude historique et critique” Éditions Fell, Paris, 1995, cited on p. 165.
We would like to thank Ms. Claire Bocquel of the Bocquel Art Foundry for her assistance in dating this piece.
