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Property of an Italian Nobleman

Louis-Auguste Malempré

Bust of Summer

Lot Closed

December 15, 01:09 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Italian Nobleman

Louis-Auguste Malempré

French

1818 - 1909

Bust of Summer


monogrammed: LAM

white marble, on a white marble socle

bust: 46 cm., 18⅛in.

socle: 10 cm., 4in.

Sotheby's London, 5 December 2012, lot 150 
A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts. A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1906, vol. p. 168, no. 1434
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1873, no. 1434
'Malempré created a number of popular subject works in a tender lyrical vein, free of the affectation and cleverness which was often found by English critics to mar continental work' (Ward-Jackson, op. cit. p. 48).

Louis-Auguste Malempré worked as an assistant to the sculptor's William Theed and Henri de Triqueti and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1852-1879. The majority of his work followed popular Victorian Ideal themes such as Innocence (RA 1859) and Spring (RA 1873).

RELATED LITERATURE
P. Ward-Jackson, 'French Modellers in the Potteries,' in P. Atterbury (ed.), The Parian Phenomenon, Shepton Beauchamp, 1989, pp. 48-56