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Camille Claudel

( French, 1864 - 1943 )

La Valse, Première Version

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LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

37.80 in. (96.00 cm.) (height)

Edition:

unique

Markings:

inscribed Camille Claudel and with the foundry mark Siot Decauville Fondeur Paris

Exhibited:

Brussels, Salon de La Libre Esthétique, 1894, no. 94 Paris, Musée Rodin, Camille Claudel, 1951, no. 16 Paris, Musée Rodin, Camille Claudel, 1991, no. 40 Paris, Grand Palais, Salon 92, 1992 Morlaix, Musée des Jacobins, Camille Claudel, 1993, no. 26 Stockholm, Nationalmuseum; Oslo, Nasjonalgalleriet & Helsinki, Ateneum, Imagination and Dreams, French Symbolism 1886-1908, 1994, no. 101 Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum; Yamaguchi, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art; Kitakyushu, Kitakyuschu City Museum; Takamatsu, Takamatsu City Museum of Art & Matsuyama, The Ehime Prefectural Art Museum, Camille Claudel, A Retrospective, 1996, no. 23 Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais & Ghent, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris-Bruxelles, Bruxelles-Paris: les relations artistiques entre la France et la Belgique, 1848-1914, 1997, no. 372, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1889-93) Canada, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Art & Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Claudel and Rodin: Fateful Encounter / Claudel et Rodin: Le rencontre de deux destins, 2005-06, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue Milan, Palazzo Reale, L'Arte delle Donne dal Rinascimento al Surrealismo, 2007-08 Paris, Musée Rodin, Camille Claudel. Une femme, une artiste, 2008

Literature:

Ernest Verlant, La Jeune Belgique, April 1894; Emile Verhaeren, ‘Le Salon de la Libre Esthétique. Les Sculpteurs’, in L’Art Moderne, 1st April 1894; Mathias Morhardt, 'Mlle Camille Claudel', in Mercure de France, March 1898, p. 733; Paul Claudel, 'Camille Claudel', in L'Art Décoratif, July 1913, illustrated p. 20; Paul Claudel, 'Ma sœur Camille, son œuvre est l'histoire de sa vie', in Figaro littéraire, 17th November 1951, p. 9; Cécile Goldscheider, Camille Claudel (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris, 1951, no. 16, illustrated pl. VIII; Paul Sentenac, 'Les sculptures de Camille Claudel et les galeries', in Cette semaine, 12th-18th December 1951; Michelle Seurière, 'Gazette des arts: Camille Claudel (Musée Rodin)', in L'Opéra, 28th November - 4th December 1951; Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin, ses collaborateurs et ses amis (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris, 1957, no. 54, p. 24; Anne Pingeot, 'Biographie de Camille Claudel', in La femme artiste d'Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun à Rosa Bonheur, Mont-de-Marsan, Lacataye, 1981, p. 104; Bruno Gaudichon, 'Notices Camille Claudel', in Catalogue des sculptures XIXe et XXe siècles dans les collections des musées de Poitiers, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, 1983, p. 62; Anne Rivière, L'Interdite, Camille Claudel, Paris, 1983, no. 16, p. 75; Bruno Gaudichon, 'Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, peint et gravé', in Camille Claudel (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin & Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, 1984, no. 74b, illustrated p. 108; Reine-Marie Paris, Camille Claudel 1864-1943, 1984, mentioned pp. 65, 359-360 ; Brigitte Fabre-Pellerin, Le Jour et la Nuit de Camille Claudel, Paris, 1988, illustrated; Renate Flagmeier, 'Deux autoportraits précédant L' ge mûr', in Les Dossiers du Musée d'Orsay, no. 25, 1988, illustrated p. 39; Joseph Boly, 'Camille Claudel, état des recherches et du rayonnement', in Société Paul Claudel en Belgique, 1989, p. 49; Claudine Mitchell, 'Intellectuality and sexuality: Camille Claudel the "fin de siècle" sculptress', in Art History, vol. XII, no. 4, Leeds, December 1989, illustrated p. 421; Reine-Marie Paris & Arnaud de La Chapelle, L'œuvre de Camille Claudel, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1990, no. 27, illustrated p. 128 (as 'lost' and with incorrect measurements); Dominique Jarrassé, Rodin. La passion du mouvement, Paris, 1993, p. 116; Gérard Bouté, Camille Claudel. Le miroir et la nuit, Paris, 1995, p. 226; Anne Rivière, Bruno Gaudichon & Danielle Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2001, no. 33.2, illustrated p. 109; Anne Riviere & Bruno Gaudichon, Camille Claudel. Correspondence. 2003, mentioned pp. 86-88, 329, illustrated pl. 27; Camille Claudel, 1864-1943 (exhibition catalogue), Fundación Mapfre, Madrid & Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007-2008, illustrated p. 83; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Camille Claudel & Rodin: Time will Heal Everything, Paris, 2013, illustrated p. 35

Provenance:

Siot-Decauville Fondeur, Paris; Eugène Blot, Paris (acquired from the above after 1902); Private Collection, Sweden (acquired in the late 1950s. Sold: Stockholms Auktionsverk, Stockholm, 5th December 1990, lot 7325); Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

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