Auction House

Auction: Art Nouveau & Design

24. November 2015, 6:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0252

George Minne

(Gent 1866 - 1941 Laethem-St. Martin)

„L'enfant prodigue“
Design: 1896
bronze, sand casting, dark patina; signed at the base: "G Minne"
h. 57.5 cm

Provenance

private collection family D. L., Brüssels

Literature

Leo van Puyvelde, George Minne, Collection les Contemporains, Brüssel 1930, Pl. 17, cat. no. 19; Robert Hoozee/Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'univers de George Minne et Maurice Maeterlinck, Gent 2011, cat. 77, p. 166; Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, George Minne. Das Frühwerk und seine Rezeption in Deutschland und Österreich bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, Weimar 2012, P14, p. 75-367 (suggests earlier dating 1891)

Estimate: € 35.000 - 70.000
Result: € 53.760 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.