Lot n° 42
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400 - 600
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Joaquim CLARET (1879-1964) - Lot 42
Joaquim CLARET (1879-1964)
Elongated nymph
Brown-skinned bonze.
Signed J Claret on the terrace.
Bears the seal of the foundryman on the reverse side F.L Godard Fondeur.
A label glued on the reverse N° 2. 406 J. Claret/ Lying Nymph/ RE00 and the number II G.
H. 25.5 cm, terrace 29.5 x 9.5 cm
LITERATURE IN RAPPORT :
- Maurice Denis, Claret Exhibition, Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 5 December 1921-13 December 1921, Paris, Bernheim-Jeune éd., 1931
- Cristina Rodríguez Samaniego, Montserrat Mallol Soler, Joaquim Claret, escultor de la Mediterrània, 1879-1964, exhibition catalogue, Museu dels Sants d'Olot, 6 March - 27 June 2010, Olot, Museo dels Sants, Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa, Institut de Cultura de la Ciutat d'Olot, ed. 2010.
- Christina Rodriguez Samaniego, Ricard Guinó and Joaquim Claret : the destiny of two Catalan sculptors in France during the Great War, Cahiers de la Méditerranée [Online], 82 | 2011, online December 15, 2011, accessed September 08, 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/ cdlm/5755 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/cdlm.5755.
After training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Joaquim Claret realized that he needed to go to Paris to make a name for himself. He probably succeeded in doing so in 1905, when he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français. Joining Aristide Maillol's studio, he became one of its practitioners for at least two years, from 1907 to 1908. During the First World War, Joaquim Claret remained stranded in Catalonia where he had gone on his honeymoon. His career was at a standstill until Maillol accelerated his return to France in 1921. The Bernheim Jeune gallery then devoted an exhibition to him, from December 5 to 13, 1921, where a copy of an Elongated Nymph was presented (under number 56 in the catalogue).
Following in the footsteps of his master Maillol, Claret finds deep sources of inspiration in mythological subjects,
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