LOT DETAILS
Materials:
bronze with brown patina and marble; wired for electricity
Measurements:
8.86 in. (22.50 cm.) (height) by 12.09 in. (30.70 cm.) (width) by 10.39 in. (26.40 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
signed and stamped with foundry mark 'C. CLAUDEL EUG. BLOT PARIS' (on the top of the base)
Exhibited:
(possibly) Paris, Galerie Eugène Blot, Camille Claudel–Bernard Hoetger, 1905, no. 6. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Detroit Institute of Arts and Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Camille Claudel and Rodin: Fateful Encounter, May 2005-June 2006, p. 358, no. 88 (dated 1900; illustrated, pp. 240 and 358). Paris, Musée Rodin, Camille Claudel, April-July 2008, pp. 313 and 417, no. 86 (illustrated in color, p. 313; dated 1899-1905).
Literature:
E. Dacier, Le Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne, no. 279, 9 December 1905, p. 303. L.T., "Les expositions. Deux sculpteurs," Psyché, April 1906, p. 104. A. Rivière, L'Interdite, Camille Claudel, Paris, 1983, p. 78, no. 45. J. Boly, "Camille Claudel, état des recherches et du rayonnement," Société Paul Claudel en Belgique, 1989, p. 49. R.-M. Paris and A. de la Chappelle, L'oeuvre de Camille Claude: Catalogue raisonné, nouvelle édition revue et complétée, Paris, 1990, p. 190 (marble version illustrated, p. 189). G. Bouté, Camille Claude: Le miroir et la nuit, Paris, 1995, p. 231 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 199; details of another cast illustrated in color, pp. 200-201). "Les cris et les silences d'un sculpteur de génie," Oxygène (La Lettre d'Aulnay), January 1996 (another cast illustrated). A. Rivière, B. Gaudichon and D. Ghanassia, Camille Claudel: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1996, p. 148, no. 59.4 (marble version illustrated, p. 149). A. Rivière, B. Gaudichon and D. Ghanassia, Camille Claudel: Catalogue raisonné, nouvelle édition revue et augmentée, Paris, 2000, pp. 178-179, no. 61.4 (marble versions illustrated in color, pp. 177 and 179). R.-M. Paris, Camille Claudel re-trouvée: Catalogue raisonné, Nouvelle édition corrigée et augmentée, Paris, 2004, pp. 411-412 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 413). R.-M. Paris and P. Cressent, Camille Claudel: Intégrale des oeuvres, Paris, 2014, p. 571, no. 280 (another version illustrated in color, p. 570).
Provenance:
Acquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1980.