Jean Lambert-Rucki - Personnage Lunaire - image-1

Lot 788 D

Jean Lambert-Rucki - Personnage Lunaire

Auction 1013 - overview Cologne
25.05.2013, 11:30 - Modern Art May 25 2013
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
Result: 17.568 € (incl. premium)

Bronze, painted. Height 111 cm. Width 51 cm. Depth 19.5 cm. Signed 'J. Lambert-Rucki' and with foundry mark "fonderie TEP" on top of the cast-with plinth. Numbered and stamped "JDV" by Éditeur Jacques de Vos, Paris, on reverse edge of plinth. Dated "2001" on left side edge of plinth. Cast 2/8 from the posthumous edition of 8 casts and 4 artist's casts. - The paint at the edges of the plinth partially bumped.

Certificate

With a photo-certificate from the daughters of the artist, Mara and Léano Rucki, Paris, dated 24 April 1997, authorising the posthumous edition

Provenance

Private collection, Paris

Literature

Jacques De Vos, Jean Lambert-Rucki 1888-1967, Paris 1988, no. 135 with colour illus. without page and front cover colour illus. (plaster)

Exhibitions

Paris 1988 (Galerie Jacques De Vos), Centenaire Jean Lambert-Rucki, here the plaster original; Athens 1997 (Galerie Titanium), Jean Lambert-Rucki, with front cover illus., here cast 1/8; Beauvais 1997/1998 (Musée départemental de l'Oise), Jean Lambert-Rucki. Présentation d'une donation. Donation Léano et Mara Rucki, no. 43, here cast EA IV/IV; Vitoria Gasteiz/Vigo 2003/2004 (Museum of art/Caixa Nova Fondation), Atelier Montparnasse (here our cast)