Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) - Lot 179

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Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) - Lot 179
Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) La Landaise au capulet, ca. 1920-1922 Terra cotta print numbered 2/8 made by the ceramist René Meynial, Paris. Signed (on the back, lower left): R. Wlérick. 28 x 29 x 20 cm PROVENANCE: Artist's family. BIBLIOGRAPHY : - Robert Wlérick, Actes du colloque de 1995, Éditions musées de Mont-de-Marsan, 1999, p. 40, repr. (terracotta print). EXHIBITIONS : - Robert Wlérick (1882-1944), Paris, Musée Rodin, 31 March-28 June 1982; Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick, 17 July-26 September 1982, Éditions Musée Rodin, 1982, n°19 p. 35, repr. (the print studied here n°2/8). - Robert Wlérick, études, esquisses et dessins, Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick, 24 June-5 September 1994; Paris, Musée Bourdelle, 1 February-14 May 1995; Poitiers, Musée Sainte-Croix, 6 October-10 December 1995; Chambéry, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1 February-30 April 1996, Paris-Musées, 1994, n°34, p.24, repr. (terracotta print). This work was commissioned by the town of Labrit (Landes) in 1920 for a war memorial. From the study for this monument, Wlérick drew a figure, La Landaise au capulet, which Paul Raoudié compares to certain 15th-century piétas. The bronze or pewter edition is limited to 8 copies; the terracotta edition to 24 copies, 8 of which are numbered.
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