Lot 230: Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)

Yvonne (Tˆte de jeune fille) signed 'R. Duchamp Villon' (on the side of the neck) bronze with brown patina Height: 7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm.) Executed in plaster and terracotta in 1907-1908 and cast in bronze at a later date LITERATURE W. Pach, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Paris, 1924 (plaster version illustrated p. 39). NOTES The present work is a portrait of the artist's wife, Yvonne, whom he married in 1903.