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CÉSAR The Centaur (Homage to Picasso) – 1983–85 Bronze with brown patina Signed and numbered on the pedestal: ‘César, 3/8’ Edition of 8 copies + 2 EA Cast by Bocquel 154 x 75 x 151 cm Provenance: Private collection Auction, Versailles, Perrin, Royère, Lajeunesse, 28 May 1989, lot 110 Alain & Candice Fraiberger Collection Auction, Paris, Sotheby’s, 6 December 2017, lot 1 Acquired at this auction by the current owner Exhibitions: Antibes, Musée Picasso, 1986 (a similar piece) Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, César: Works from 1947 to 1993, July–September 1993, reproduced, pp. 108 & 140 (a similar copy) Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, César, June–October 1997, reproduced, p. 151 (a similar example) Rabat, Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, César: A Mediterranean History, December 2015–March 2016, reproduced in colour, pp. 25, 30, 33 & 54 (a similar example) A monumental version has been installed in Place Michel Debré in Paris since 1988. Bibliography: Catalogue des Salons d’Automne, 1987, reproduced on the cover (a similar version) P. Restany, César, Editions de La Différence, Paris, 1988, reproduced in colour, pp. 297–298–299 (a similar copy) La Gazette, 2 June 1989, reproduced under no. 22, unpaginated (a similar copy) J-C. Hachet, César ou les métamorphoses d’un grand art, Paris, 1989, reproduced in colour under no. 165b, p. 80 (a similar copy) F. Patent, *Ancrages Magazine*, June 1990, reproduced under no. 2, unpaginated (a similar copy) B-H. Lévy, *César: Les Bronzes*, Editions de La Différence, Paris & Musée Paul-Valéry, Sète, 1991, reproduced on pp. 31 & 51 (a similar example) César: Œuvres Monumentales, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1996, reproduced in colour on p. 68 (a similar example) This work is registered in the Denyse Durand-Ruel Archives under no. 3243. CÉSAR 154 x 75 x 151 cm
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