Robert Couturier (1905-2008) - Lot 243

Robert Couturier (1905-2008) Léda Model created in 1944 Bronze with green patina Signed "Couturier" on the back on the rock Bears the founder's stamp "CIRE PERDUE BISCEGLIA". H. 18.5 cm Related literature -Valérie Da Costa, Robert Couturier, Paris, Norma éd. 2000, illustrated plaster model p. 75 and illustrated bronze model p. 76. Commenting on Robert Couturier's work, Aristide Maillol said, "You, Couturier, in the ill-fitting genre, will do something very good". The young lithography student became his pupil in 1928, and soon became one of the leading sculptors of the 1930s. In 1937, his Jardinier, commissioned for the Trocadero esplanade in Paris, was presented at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques, where it stood out alongside the many female figures characteristic of the "return to order". Like Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier and Jean Fautrier, Robert Couturier broke with pure figuration and developed stretched, vertical and elongated forms.