
La Valse, petit modèle
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 EUR
Lot Details
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.
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