Centaur, Tribute to Picasso, 1994
Red travertine marble
Unique piece
230 x 212 x 102 cm
Red marble travertine
single piece
90 1/2 x 83 1/2 x 40 1/8in.
Origin
Acquired directly from the artist
Private collection, Monaco
Exhibition
Antibes, Picasso Museum, 1986 (similar copy)
“César, Works from 1947 to 1993”, Marseille, Center de la Vieille Charité, July - September 1993, catalogue, pages 108 and 140, illustrated (similar copy)
“César”, Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, June 10 - October 19, 1997, exhibition catalogue, page 151 (similar copy)
"Caesar, a Mediterranean story", Rabat, Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, December 2015 - March 2016, pages 25, 30, 33, 54, illustrated in color (similar copy)
Bibliography
Catalog of the Salons d'Automne, 1987, illustrated on the cover (similar copy)
Pierre Restany, “César”, Éditions de La Différence, 1988, reproduced in color on page 296 (similar copy in plaster), page 297 (similar copy in bronze), page 298 (similar copy in bronze) and page 299 (similar copy in bronze)
Jean-Charles Hachet, "César or the metamorphoses of a great art", Éditions Varia, Paris, 1989, reproduced in color page 80 (similar copy in bronze)
BH Lévy, “César, Les Bronzes”, Éditions de La Différence, 1991, reproduced in color on page 31 (similar copy in bronze)
Knowledge of the Arts, "César", Special Issue on the occasion of the artist's retrospective at the Vieille Charité, Marseille, July 1993, reproduced in color page 38 (similar copy)
Galerie Enrico Navarra, “César”, Paris, 1996, reproduced in color pages 68-69 (similar examples in bronze)
“César: the retrospective”, [exhibition catalog, Center Pompidou, Gallery 1, from December 13, 2017 to March 26, 2018], Paris, Center Pompidou, 2017, reproduced in color page 167 (similar copy in plaster), page 223 (similar example in bronze)
Footnotes
A similar example in bronze has been on permanent display in Place Michel Debré, Paris, since 1985.
Similar copies
Picasso Museum, Antibes, plaster, 1983, 74 x 62 x 30 cm
Tenoudji collection, Paris, bronze, 1983, 75 cm
Herbo collection, St Tropez, bronze, 1983, 140 cm
Marianne and Pierre Nahon Collection, bronze, 1983, 152 x 75 x 161 cm
Collection of the artist, bronze, 1983, 120 x 120 x 57 cm
Place Miche Debré, bronze, 1985, 470 cm
This work is recorded in the archives of Madame Denyse Durand-Ruel under number 3243.
A certificate of authenticity from Madame Denyse Durand-Ruel will be given to the purchaser.
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