Jean LAMBERT-RUCKI (1888 - 1967) - Couple embracing - c.1927 - Lot 26

Jean LAMBERT-RUCKI (1888 - 1967) - Couple embracing - c.1927 - Black patina bronze bas-relief, signed, stamped J.D.V, stamped La Plaine foundry, proof no. 6/8. Original posthumous print limited to 8 copies plus 3 hors commerce proofs and 1 artist's proof, with the authorization of the heirs of the moral right. Certificate of origin signed by the artist's daughters issued to the purchaser. - 29.5 x 7 x 2 cm Bibliography: Jean Lambert-Rucki 1888-1967, J. De Vos, M.A. Ruan and J.P. Tortil, Editions Galerie Jacques De Vos, 1988, no. 1 (engraved ebony). Exhibitions: "Lambert-Rucki, Les Parisiens et les autres", Galerie J. De Vos, May/June 1993 (bronze). "Jean Lambert-Rucki, 1888-1967", De Vos&Giraud Gallery, New York, Nov./Dec. 2006. Comment: First work purchased by Jacques De Vos in 1971, at the first studio sale at Drouot by Maître Claude Robert (Provenance artist's family).