Cesar - Original Signed Work

CESAR (César Baldaccini) (1921 – 1998), French sculptor
Combustion, 1992
Mixed media on cardboard, 31.5 x 48 cm, signed, dated (1992) and located (Beaulieu): combustion of a matchbox, collage of a bean and a necklace with the addition of a burnt drawing in its center, representing a peacock, signed Anne (daughter of the gallery owner Jean Ferrero) and dated (1992). Mounted in a plexiglass box by Jean Ferrero with his handwritten annotation on the back of the box: “signed combustion, made in 1992 with a drawing by my daughter Anne, 9 years old, executed by César (…) Beaulieu/mer”. Box dimensions: 45 x 61 cm Provenance: Galerie Ferrero in Nice (label on the back of the frame). Jean Ferrero, a famous merchant from Nice, founded his gallery in 1973. He witnessed the birth of the Nice school, of which he became one of the most fervent promoters. In 2016, he bequeathed 853 works from the Nice school to the city of Nice, thus giving a unique vision of these artists that were César, Arman, Ben Vautier.