Charles DESPIAU (1874-1946) - Lot 61

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Charles DESPIAU (1874-1946) - Lot 61
Charles DESPIAU (1874-1946) Ms. Robert Zunz Workshop plaster. Pencilled in (on the side of the base) Despiau 41 x 14 x 19 cm Provenance: Ms. Despiau The work will be included in the Critical Catalogue of Charles Despiau's sculptural work currently being prepared by the Galerie Malaquais under the direction of Élisabeth Lebon, under the number 2020-4P. 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 67-P. Bibl iography : - Claude Roger-Marx, Despiau, Paris, Gallimard, Édition de la Nouvelle Revue française, collection " Les sculpteurs français nouveaux ", n° 1, 19wx<00022, repr.nn. - René Schwob, Despiau, L'Amour de l'Art, March 1922, repr. p. 78. - Léon Deshairs, Charles Despiau, Paris, coll. des cahiers d'aujourd'hui, Ed. Crès et Cie, 1930, repr. Pl.XVI. - Paul Fierens, The Sculpture of C. Despiau, The Studio, December 1930, repr. P.421. - Luc Benoist, La sculpture française, Paris, Larousse, repr.Pl.XCVI. Banker Robert Zunz commissions Despiau to create a bust of his wife in 1920, just after the end of the war. She poses for a whole year. Despiau is inspired by the pure simplicity of the Romanesque madonnas, but with the androgynous spirit of the coming Roaring Twenties.
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