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MIGUEL BERROCAL (1933-2006)
Portrait de Michèle (Portrait of Michèle)
signed 'berrocal' (on the neck) and numbered '1211' (on the reverse)
nickel-plated Zamak, bronze and gold-plated brass ring
4 x 234 x 218in. (10.3 x 7 x 5.5cm.)
Executed in 1969, this work is number one thousand, two hundred and eleven from an edition of nine thousand and five hundred, plus six originals in 18-carat gold and five hundred in silver.
Provenance
Roger and Josette Vanthournout, Belgium, and thence by descent.
Literature
G. Marchiori. La sculpture de Berrocal, Brussels 1973, pp. 18, 19, 20, 122 no. 110 pl. 108-109 (another from the edition illustrated p. 85).
Berrocal antológica Berrocal, 1955-1984, exh. cat., Madrid, Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, 1984, no. 132, opus 110 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 93, 109, 299 and 306-309).
J. Ferrier, Berrocal, Paris 1989 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 159).
Berrocal sculture e disegni 1958-1995, exh. cat., Verona, Palazzo Forti Gallerie d’Arte Moderna, 1995, p. 221 no. 110 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 133).
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