Bronze with a very worn green/grey patina
period casting, unsigned and without a founder’s mark, 400 x 15 x 15 cm.
The first copy of a bronze edition approved by the François Stahly Committee, consisting of eight numbered copies from 1/8 to 8/8 plus 4 artist’s proofs, is currently being produced by Susse Foundry.
There is another posthumous bronze edition of a variant embedded in a bronze trough.
This Water Chain is one of four carved wooden copies, all different.
It was commissioned as a rainwater downspout by architects Paul Herbé and Jean Le Couteur for Algiers Cathedral. Only two copies were cast in bronze, the commission having been cancelled due to the independence
of Algeria.
It was subsequently used as a water downspout in the artist’s studio in Meudon.