Sep 15, 2005 - Sale 2049

Sale 2049 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 4,370
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JULIO GONZÁLEZ
Maternité.

Brush and pen and ink and wash on thin cream wove paper, 1906. 254x143 mm; 10x53/8 inches. Dated "juli 2 1906" in ink, lower right. Ex-collection Carmen Martinez and Viviane Grimminger, Paris; Pace Gallery, New York; Galerie de France, Paris; Galerie Eric Franck, with the labels on the frame back. Exhibited in Julio González--a Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Städische Garlier im Städtishe Galierie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt; Akademie der Künste, 1983, illustrated, no. 38

This drawing relates to the terracotta sculpture Maternité au capuchon of 1910-14 (see Julio González, New York, p. 51, no. 39) illustration of the terracotta; p. 50, no. 37, illustration of another study. See also Josette Gilbert, Julio González--Projets pur Sculptures, Personnages, Paris, 1975, vol. III, ilustrated, p. 21.