Étienne István Beothy Lot n° 147

Étienne István Beothy Opus 21, Femme 1927 Bronze. Height 36.5 cm. Signed 'EBeothy', numbered and with the foundry stamp "Blanchet Fondeur" to the center back of the plinth. Example 1/6. Posthumous casting. - With beautiful brown, partly lightened patina. Isolated traces of wear. Meurer 43 Provenance Privately owned, Hesse; Lempertz Cologne, Auction 896, 29.11.2006, Lot 29; Privately owned, North Rhine-Westphalia Exhibitions Cf. Paris 1985 (Galerie Franka Berndt Bastille), Beothy et l'avant-garde hongroise Literature Alfred Meurer, Der Bildhauer Etienne Beothy: Werk und Ästhetik, Weimar 2002, pp. 86-88, fig. 43 (faience); Krisztina Passuth, Etienne Beothy. Le sculpteur de la série d'or, in: Etienne Beothy, exhib. Cat. Galerie Le Minotaure-Enciklopédia Kiado, Budapest 2011, pp. 59, 166 The "Femme op. 21", created in 1927, has a counterpart in "Homme op. 25" from the same year.