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Camille Claudel

La Valse, petit modèle

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400,000 - 600,000 EUR

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Description

Camille Claudel

1864–1943

La Valse, petit modèle


signed C. Claudel, numbered 1 and stamped with the foundry mark Eug. Blot, Paris

bronze

height: 22,7 cm; 9 in.

Conceived in 1895, this example cast in 1905 by Eugène Blot.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Reine-Marie Paris.

Exh. Cat., Brussels, Galerie Dieleman, Human Sculpture, 1989, n.n., another cast illustrated on the catalogue cover

Exh. Cat.,Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, C. Claudel, 1990-1991, no. 83-84, p. 156, another cast illustrated; p. 125, another cast illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Rodin, Camille Claudel, 1991, no. 91, p. 162, another cast illustrated; p. 129, another cast illustrated in colour

Reine-Marie Paris and Arnaud de La Chapelle, L'Œuvre de Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, no. 28, pp. 132-134, another cast illustrated in colour

Joseph Adolf Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Munich, 1994, pp. 64-67, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Liège, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Liège, Gauguin, Les XX et la Libre Esthétique, 1994-1995, no. 72, p. 151, another cast illustrated in colour

Anne Rivière, Bruno Gaudichon and Danielle Ghannasia, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1996, no. 32.8, p. 88, another cast illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Auguste Rodin, Eros und Leidenschaft, 1996, no. 49, p. 204, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art; Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art; Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Takamatsu, Takamatsu City Museum of Art et Matsuyama, Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, Camille Claudel - Auguste Rodin, 1996, no. 26-27, pp. 68-69, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl and Mariemont, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Auguste Rodin: Die Bürger von Calais, Werk und Wirkung, 1997-1998, no. 43, fig. 116, n.p., another cast illustrated

Reine-Marie Paris, Camille Claudel, re-trouvée, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2000 and 2004, no. 28-7, p. 298, another cast illustrated in colour

Anne Rivière, Bruno Gaudichon and Danielle Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2001, no. 33-8, p. 112, another cast illustrated in colour

Reine-Marie Paris and Philippe Cressent, Camille Claudel, intégrale des oeuvres, Paris, 2014, no. 322, pp. 652-653, another cast illustrated in colour

Reine-Marie Paris and Philippe Cressent, Camille Claudel, catalogue raisonné, 5e édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée, Paris, 2019, no. 66-15, p. 473, another cast illustrated in colour

This is number one of four known numbered casts made in 1905 in this size by Eugène Blot.

The second example was sold by Sotheby's New York in 2013, the third example, with a golden patina, is in a private collection and the fourth example is held in the collection of the Munich Neue Pinakothek.