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“LES PASSIONS S’ÉLEVANT VERS LES MUSES”, 1909
Two sculptures in bronze with a black patina
Signed on each element in full letters and Alexis Rudier Fondeur à Paris
35 x 27 cm.
These are the sculptures placed above the bookcase made by Dejean for M. Paix-Séailles
Most probably unique
Exhibition
L’Art et les Artistes, March 1910, model in plaster ill. pp. 271 and 273
“LE PRINTEMPS”
Two-sided bronze medal
Numbered 108
Edited by la Société des Amis de la Médaille Française
5.9 cm. diameter
“ADOLESCENTS”
Two-sided bronze medal
Numbered 114
Edited by la Société des Amis de la Médaille Française
5.6 cm. diameter
“ELEGANTE EN ROBE LONGUE, SEIN GAUCHE DECOUVERT”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Signed
With foundry mark and numbererd (M)
39 cm. high
“DEPART POUR LE BAL”
Grès
Signed by both artists
22 cm. high
A similar example in the Roger Marx collection, May 13, 1914, lot 49
These models in collaboration with the ceramist Methey are listed:
Femme à la canne, Sortie de spectacle, Diseuse, Coursière, Femme au chapeau, (2) danseuses, Femme à l’éventail, Jeune Mariée, Sortie de Bal, Buste d’enfant, Buste paysan, Tête de Femme (1ère Exposition des Arts du Foyer, 1901)
Bibliography
Die Kunst, 1900, vol. II, ill. p. 330
L’Art et les Artistes, april 1907, ill. p. 22
André Metthey, la quête du feu et de la couleur, MUDO, Musée de l’Oise, 2022, ill. p.35
“MELANCOLIE”
Bronze with a brown patina
Signed and bearing the foudry mark I H F Paris
Exhibition
SNBA, 1901 (plaster)
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, December 1901, p. 111, model in plaster ill. “…C’est la Mélancolie, avec la vérité de la pose de tout le corps, d’un bras abandonné sur les genoux, du visage penché sur l’autre bras reployé et soutenu par le dossier du siège”
“LA DAME AU GRAND MANTEAU”
Bronze with a dark brown patina, cast after 1905
Signed, marked (M), and with foundry mark;
bearing an exhibition label at the Musée des
Arts Décoratifs, Paris,
marked 1933 and M. Hébrard; an inventory label marked 2487; and another label marked Douane Centrale / Paris
37.5 cm. high
Another example commissioned by the French State in 1904 for the Musée du Luxembourg belongs to the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, inv. LUX 214
Exhibition
Salon National des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1904, 1899 for an example in terracotta
Exposition de la statuette, Musée Galliéra, Paris, 1914, n. 152 of the exhibition catalogue
Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin…, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 6 May – 28 August 2006, ill. p. 237, n. 176 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, June 1904, an example in plaster ill. p. 230
