Aimé-Jules Dalou (French, 1838-1902)

Femme nue assise dans un fauteuil et retirant son bas, circa 1875-1880, cast later
bronze
signed Dalou, with stamped Makers/ Hatfield & Son/ London foundry mark and numbered 1/6
Height 7 1/4 inches.

Property from the Estate of Howard and Irene Stein, Atlanta, Georgia

Note:

Compare to a nearly identical example acquired by the Tate in 1966 from the collection of Nadia Nerina (reference no. T00825), which was one of six numbered casts made in 1965 from an unsigned plaster model purchased by Nerina from the Sculptures by Jules Dalou (1838-1902) exhibition at Mallett at Bourdon House in London in 1964. The unsigned plaster model from Mallett was cast after a terracotta maquette in the collection of the Petit Palais, musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris (no. PPS217). Nerina's sculpture in the Tate's collection is numbered 2/6 and similarly stamped with a Makers/ Hatfield & Son/ London foundry mark. The present casting is likely from the same edition of six.

Provenance:

Likely Collection of Nadia Gordon, née Nerina

Collection of Arthur M. Sackler, New York

Sold Sotheby's, New York, Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 29 January 2010, Lot 532

Exhibited:

Mallett at Bourdon House, Ltd. London, Sculptures by Jules Dalou (1838-1902), 28 April-9 May 1964

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Toulouse Lautrec & Friends: The Irene and Howard Stein Collection, 29 January-1 May 2011