Germaine RICHIER 1902- 1959 Don Quixote with a mill wing - 1949 Natural bronze Signed and numbered on the terrace "G. Richier 7/8", founder's stamp on the edge of the terrace "L.THINOT.fondeur. PARIS" 52,50 cm (20,67 in.) Provenance : Galerie Creuzevault, Paris Acquired from the latter by the present owner Exhibitions : Venice, XXVI Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1952 (a similar copy) Paris, National Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, October-December 1956, n°12 p.10 (a similar copy) Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, "Sculpture by Germaine Richier", September-November 1958, N° 14 , reproduced (a similar copy) Kassel, "Documenta II, Kunst nach 1945", July - October 1959, (a similar copy) Antibes, Musée Picasso, "Germaine Richier", July - September 1959, N° 96, reproduced (a similar copy) Le Havre, Maison de la Culture, "Sculpture Contemporaine", May - June 1962, N° 145 (a similar copy) Zürich, Kunsthaus, "Germaine Richier", 1963, (a similar copy) Arles, Musée Réattu, "Germaine Richier", 1964, (a similar copy) Annecy, Château des Ducs de Nemours, "Germaine Richier", 1967, (a similar copy) St Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, "Germaine Richier, retrospective", April - June 1996, N° 34, reproduced in color p. 87, (a similar copy) Bern, Kunstmuseum, Germaine Richier: retrospektive, November 2013 - April 2014, no. 44 p. 178, reproduced in black and white p.104 (a similar copy) Geneva, Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière, Germaine Richier, Retrospective, November 2014- February 2015, reproduced in color p.26 (a similar copy) Bibliography : J.Grenier, "Germaine Richier, Sculpteur du Terrible", in L'Oeil, Paris 1955, N° 9, p.26-31 (a similar copy) D. Chevalier, "Un grand sculpteur: Germaine Richier", in Prestige Français et Mondanités, Paris 1956, N° 19, p.60-65 (the original plaster) A. Chastel, "Au Musée d'Art Moderne: Germaine Richier, La Puissance et le Malaise", in Le Monde, Paris 1956 (a similar copy) C. Roger-Marx, "Cette héritiaire inspirée des Grands Maîtres", Le Figaro Littéraire, Paris 1959 (a similar copy) R. Charmet, "Germaine Richier: une oeuvre d'une humanité déchirée", Arts, Paris 1959 (a similar copy) E. Crispoliti, "Germaine Richier", in I maestri della scultura, Editions Fratelli Fabres, Milan 1968, N° 65, p.50-52 (a similar copy) I.Jianou, G. Xurigura and A. Lardra, "Richier Germaine", in La Sculpture moderne, Edition Arted Editions d'Art, Paris, 1982, p.178 (a similar copy) P. Restany, "Germaine Richier le grand art de la statuaire", in catalog of the exhibition "Germaine Richier", Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August-September 1988, p.8-17 (a similar copy) Comment : Natural bronze; signed and numbered on the base; foundry mark, on the edge of the base