Jacques Hérold (Piatra Neam, 1910 - Paris, 1987) Radiolaria, circa 1977-1978 Gilded bronze Signed and numbered: "4/6" on the base Edition of 6 Stamped by the Bocquel foundry on the back 59cm×20×20cm (without base) 59cm×20×20cm (including base) Provenance : - Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Étude Paul Renaud, "Collection Jacques Hérold", 13 November 1998, lot 147 (wrong date [1945]) - Collection Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, Paris Exhibition: Marseille, Musée Cantini, "Jacques Hérold (1910-1987) et le surréalisme", 10 October 2010 - 17 January 2011, reproduced in the catalogue under n°154 p.151 and described p.181 (wrong date [1945]) Bibliography: S. Alexandrian, "Jacques Hérold, étude historique et critique", Éditions Fell, Paris, 1995, cited p.165 We would like to thank Madame Claire Bocquel of the Fonderie d'art Bocquel for her help in dating this piece.