Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) - Lot 74

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Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) - Lot 74
Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) Tribute to Baudelaire or Dédette couchée, small model, 1939-1940 Bronze print, No. 1/10. Sand casting Alexis Rudier. Inscribed (on the edge of the base) Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris. Signed (on the terrace) R. Wlérick. 23 x 46 x 22 cm BIBLIOGRAPHY : - Jacques Baschet, Sculpteurs de ce temps, Paris, Nouvelles Éditions Française, 1946. - Robert Wlérick (1882-1944) , exp. cat., London, Bruton Gallery (22 May-26 June 1976), Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery (1 July-8 August 1976), London, Bruton Gallery, 1976. - Robert Wlérick (1882-1944), cat. exp., Paris, Musée Rodin (31 March-28 June 1982), Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick (17 July-26 September 1982), Paris, Musée Rodin, 1982. - - Robert Wlérick, studies, sketches and drawings, exp. cat., Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick (24 June-5 September 1994), Paris, Musée Bourdelle (1 February-14 May 1995), Poitiers, Musée Ste-Croix (6 October-10 December 1995), Chambéry, Musée des Beaux-Arts (1 February-30 April 1996), Paris, Paris-Musées, 1994. At the end of the 1930s, Wlérick immortalized his model Odette, nicknamed Dédette, in three sculptures, including L'Hommage à Baudelaire. It bears witness to a great sensuality usually more contained in other figures, and to a particularly accomplished geometrical construction below the flexibility of the generous curves letting the light slide fluidly over the surface. Wlérick reaches a maturity of his art, between audacity and mastery, echoing the sequence of standing figures, certainly initiated under the impetus of his friend Charles Despiau's emblematic Assia. There are ten numbered proofs, and two artist's proofs of the Hommage à Baudelaire. The 5/10 copy is kept in the Fine Arts Museum of Pau.
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