Lot n° 59
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3000 - 4000
EUR
Charles DESPIAU (1874-1946) - Lot 59
Charles DESPIAU (1874-1946)
Bust of Jacques Lappara, known as Jacquot or Lulu, 1917
Plaster second state.
Unsigned.
29 x 19.5 x 22.5 cm
The work will be included in the Catalogue critique de l'œuvre sculpté de Charles Despiau currently being prepared by the Galerie Malaquais under the direction of Élisabeth Lebon, under number 2020-5P.
SOURCE: Élisabeth Lebon, Charles-Despiau (1874-1946), catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Thèse de doctorat d'Histoire de l'art, under the direction of Mme Mady Ménier (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), 1995, notice 126-P.
BIBLIOGRAPHY :
- Waldemar-George, Despiau, Les feuillets d'art, p.37.
- Claude Roger-Marx, Despiau, Paris, Gallimard, Ed. de la Nouvelle revue française, collection " Les sculpteurs français nouveaux ", n°1, repr. nn, np (plaster).
- Portraits in Bronze - By Charles Despiau", Vanity Fair, June 1929, repr. (bronze).
- Léon Deshairs, Charles Despiau, Paris, collection des Cahiers d'Aujourd'hui, Ed. Crès et Cie, 1930, repr. Pl. VIII (bronze).
- Waldemar-George, Despiau, London, Zwemmer, 1958, repr. Pl nn.
The family of the painter William Laparra had joined him in Chantilly when he was mobilized in the Camouflage section as Despiau. The face of young Jacquot caught the sculptor's attention. All in synthesis and harmony, conceived in a world prey to a bloody war, this child's portrait carries Despiau's hopes in the reconciling power of art. Although he was not inclined to duplications, Despiau had at least seventeen plaster reproductions made of this bust, which he offered to dear friends around him, a sign of his particular interest in this work.
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