Jean CARTON (1912-1988) - Lot 137

Lot 137
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Jean CARTON (1912-1988) - Lot 137
Jean CARTON (1912-1988) The Offering (Marie-Christine pregnant), 1979-1980 Bronze print, No. 4/10. Coubertin lost wax casting. Signed J. Carton. 92 x 42 x 23 cm BIBLIOGRAPHIE : - Roger Passeron, Jean Carton Dessins Gravures, Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1980. - Carton Sculptures Sanguines Estampes, cat. exp., Paris, galerie Art France (October-November 1980), Paris, galerie Art France, 1980, repr. - Michel Boutin, "C'est l'exposition Jean Carton à Quimper", Journal de l'Amateur d'Art, January 1983, p.7, repr. - Permanences, n°257, December 1988, p.6, repr. - Vingt-trois hommages à Jean Carton (1912-1988)", Connaissance des Hommes, n°129, March-April 1989, p.18, repr. - Hommage à Jean Carton, exp. catalogue, Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau Biennial, theatre (18 June-3 July 1994), Fontainebleau printing press, 1994, repr. Throughout his career, Jean Carton creates great figures, treated individually or in groupes : the Adolescent (1931), the Thought (1942), the Great Athlete (1958), the Great Dawn (1968), or the Hope (1982). The Offering and the Hope are intimately linked, since it is the same figure, also called Mary Christine. Unlike Hope, the Offering represents a pregnant woman with a full, round belly and heavy, swollen breasts, in a dynamic, arched posture. Unheard of, the figure affirms authority and freedom in a pose rare for the time, which places it in the direct heritage of its spiritual masters, Rude, Rodin and Degas.
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