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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Germaine Richier, Homme de la nuit n°2, 1954

Germaine Richier

Homme de la nuit n°2, 1954
Bronze patiné foncé / Bronze with dark patina
Cette oeuvre, dans son tirage original, comprend 12 épreuves
This work, in its original edition, includes 12 prints
(1/8 à 8/8 et EA, HC1, HC2, HC3)
27 x 11 x 9 cm
10 5/8 x 4 3/8 x 3 1/2
Edition of 8 plus 1 artist's proof
GR011bis
© Germaine Richier, Adagp, Paris
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Homme de la nuit belongs to this hybrid production that critics will qualify as 'fantastic'. The figure is situated between man and beast and it emanates a supernatural power. The...
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Homme de la nuit belongs to this hybrid production that critics will qualify as "fantastic". The figure is situated between man and beast and it emanates a supernatural power. The treatment of the material contributes to accentuate the expressive dimension. Germaine Richier abandons the smooth and neat contours, and uses the material to bring mystery and strangeness to her sculptures. The artist's fingers and the mark of the tools appear: "accidents" that are part of the elaboration of the work and that recall the traces left by Rodin. This art of the accident makes it rock in the modernity. The method of triangulation taught by Bourdelle stands out in the lower part of the work, and the base is considered in a new way.

With Homme de la nuit, Germaine Richier oscillates between transmission and transgression with the masters of sculpture. Bourdelle's teaching and Rodin's legacy are visible in this work, which places her in a continuity of figurative sculpture, while making undeniable stylistic and thematic breaks.
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Provenance

Ancienne collection Marcel Lefranc

Exhibitions

Germaine Richier, La Magicienne, Musée Picasso d’Antibes et Musée Beelden aan Zee de La Haye, 2019-2020
Bâle, Kunsthalle, 17 juin-25 juillet 1954, "Germaine Richier. Bissière, H. R. Schiess, Vieira da Silva, Raoul Ubac" Paris, musées national d'Art moderne, 10 octobre-9 décembre 1956, "Germaine Richier" Boston, University School of Fine and Applied Arts, 10 janvier-7 février 1959, "Sculpture by Germaine Richier" Antibes, musée picasso, 17 juillet-30 septembre 1959, "Germaine Richier" Zurich, Kunsthaus, 12 juin-21 juillet 1963, "Germaine Richier" Arles, musée Réattu, 7 juillet-30 septembre 1964, "Germaine Richier".

Catalogues

Germaine Richier, La Magicienne, Musée Picasso d’Antibes et Musée Beelden aan Zee de La Haye, 2019-2020, Ed. Hazan, p. 139 (oeuvre mentionnée)
Chevalier (Denys), "Un grand sculpteur: Germaine Richier", Prestige français et Mondanités, Paris, septembre 1956, n°19, p. 60-65. Chastel (André), Au musée d'Art moderne: "Germaine Richier: la puissance et le malaise", Le Monde, Paris, 13 octobre 1956 Tenand (Suzanne), Plaisirs de voir : " De Germaine Richier à Léonard de Vinci", Tribune des nations, Paris, 16 octobre 1956. Chevalier (Denys), Sculpture encore : "Dans son atelier, vaste forêt de plâtres et de bronzes, Germaine Richier, chef d'école, sculpte les grands myhtes sylvestres", Femme, Paris, octobre-novembre 1956, 81-83. Limbour (Georges), La vie des arts: "Le pouce de Germaine Richier", France Observateur, Paris, Paris, 1er novembre 1956. Brassaï, "Germaine Richier", Les Artistes de ma vie, éd. Denoël, Paris, 1982, p.194-197.
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