Lot 171: Pierre Lenoir

Pierre Lenoir
fountain 'confidences', circa 1926
patinated bronze, modelled as two women with their arms about each other's shoulders, sharing secrets, leaning against the wall of a shaped rectangular fountain, two vases balanced on the edges of the basin
inscribed 'Pierre Lenoir' with artist's monogram, impressed twice '10' and 'Cire perdue A.G. Paris' within an oval
86.5 cm., 34 in.
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, The Andy Warhol Collection, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, 23rd April 1988, lot 224.
Exhibited:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The World of Art Deco, July-September 1971, cat.no. 72, p. 58 in the exhibition catalogue.