BALTASAR LOBO (1910-1993) Contemplative

BALTASAR LOBO (1910-1993)
Contemplative
signed, inscribed and numbered 'Lobo 4/8 Valsuani. B GX' (on the reverse)
bronze with gold-green patina
17.9cm (7 1/16in). high
Conceived in 1969, this bronze version cast by the Valsuani Foundry circa 1970 in a numbered edition of 8, plus four artist's proofs.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Galería Freites.

Provenance
Galerie Villand & Galanis, Paris.
Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired from the above in 1971).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in July 1976).
Private collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above).

Exhibited
Zurich, Galerie Nathan, Baltasar Lobo, Marmor, Stein, Bronzen, Zeichnungen, 30 April - 10 July 1976, no. 31 (titled 'Abandon (La sieste)').
(Possibly) Zurich, Galerie Nathan, Lobo, Skulpturen, 3 November 1995 - 23 March 1996, no. 27.
Ornans, Musée Gustave Courbet, Courbet, l'amour..., 1996, no. I.

Literature
Exh. cat., Lobo, Madrid, 1970, no. 29 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Lobo, Zamora, 1984, no. 21 (another cast illustrated).
J-É. Muller & V. Bollmann-Müller, Lobo, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 1985, no. 316 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., Baltasar Lobo, London, 2004, no. 14 (another cast illustrated).
K. de Barañano, M.L. Cárdenas & M. Jaume, Catálogo razonado de esculturas Baltasar Lobo, Vol. II, Madrid, 2021, no. 6919 (another cast illustrated p. 311).