SOLD
THOMAS DEPREZ FINE ARTS
19th & 20th Century Belgian works of art
© Cedric Verhelst
Click image to enlarge
SOLD
Yvonne SERRUYS
(1873-1953)
Badinage I, ca. 1931
​
Lost wax bronze w/ brown and green patina
Approx. | H 20,8 cm | B 15,9 cm | W 15,5 cm
​
Signed on the base
‘Yvonne Serruys’
​
Stamped with foundry mark
‘CIRE / A. VALSUANI / PERDUE’
in horizontal diamond shape
​
​
​
​
​
PROVENANCE :
Private Collection, Switserland
​
RELATED WORKS :
A larger (h 57cm) and more finished version is held in the Museum 't Schippershof in Menin (Belgium) and was bequeathed by the artist, together with the entire content of her studio, to the city of Menin upon her dead in 1953.
Another edition of the bozzetto is known to be held in a private collection in Kuurne (Belgium), while a version from a different foundry is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts of Ghent (Belgium) and stems from the bequest of the female painter and friend of the artist Anna De Weert.
(Informally noted by Prof. Dr. Marjan Sterckx)
​
​
LITERATURE :
Marjan STERCKX, Yvonne Serruys (1873-1953): Belgische beeldhouwster in Parijs (Menen : Stadsmuseum 't Schippershof), 2003, p. 122 (cf. larger version).
​
​
​
​
​