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IMPORTANT SCULPTURE, CIRCA 1900
Patinated terracotta featuring a naked woman looking at herself in a pond
Signed, with editor’s mark
Bibliography
Goldscheider, Ora Pinhas, 2006, p.51, n. 0196 for a similar model
BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN, CIRCA 1900
Grès
Signed by both artists, numbered 453
This design was also executed in bronze
Bibliography
Paul Arthur, French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary, Norma éditions, 2015, ill. p. 163
Hélène Bédague Alexandre Bigot, Chimiste et Céramiste, éditions Louvre Victoire, Paris, 2016, ill. p. 121
BUST OF A YOUNG WOMAN, 1895
Patinated bronze
Signed, dated 95 and with foundry mark
35 cm. high
This design was also executed in stoneware by Alexandre Bigot
Bibliography
Hélène Bédague, Alexandre Bigot, Chimiste et Céramiste, éditions Louvre Victoire, Paris, 2016, ill. p. 120
“BAIGNEUSE”, CIRCA 1900
Marble
Signed
60 cm. high
“CHLOE ENDORMIE”, CIRCA 1900
Marble sculpture
Signed
45 x 18 x 27.5 cm.
CANDLESTICK, CIRCA 1902
Bronze
Signed and with foundry mark
44 cm. high
Exhibition
Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1902
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif aux Expositions des Beaux-Arts, 1902, 1st volume, ill. pl. 36 to 38
“NESSUS ENLEVANT DEJANINE”, CIRCA 1900
Silver; the base in sculpted onyx
Signed Tonnelier HC
16 cm. high
“LE LYS”, CIRCA 1900
Gilt patinated bronze
Signed
43 cm. high
48 cm. wide
27 cm. deep
“LES DEUX DOULEURS”, CIRCA 1910
Bronze with a black patina
Signed and bears the foundry mark of Susse Frères
Smaller version of the plaster cast of 1904
31 cm. high
Bibliography
Colette Dumas, Théodore Rivière, sa vie … son oeuvre, nd, the plaster cast ill. n. 126
“DANSEUSE AU COTHURNE”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze
Signed and titled COTHURNE and numbered 2
With foundry mark
27.5 cm. high
“CONSOLATION”, 1893
Plaster
Signed, titled, located Paris and dated 1893
Bibliography
L’Art Décoratif, November 1901, ill. p. 46
29 cm. high
“JEUNE FILLE SORTANT DU BAIN”, CIRCA 1905
Bronze with a black patina
Signed, with foundry mark
47 x 57 cm.
“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
TWO FIGURAL SCULPTURES OF A BALLET DANCER, 1898-1899
Patinated bronze
Signed and marked B under the base
Another cast of this sculpture is part of the collection of the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
21 cm. high
Patinated bronze
Signed and marked E under the base
An example of this sculpture in red wax is part of the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (inv. 1347)
21 cm. high
Exhibition
La Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1899
Musée Galliéra, Paris, 1934-1935
Bibliography
La Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, exhibition catalogue, 1899
Musée Galliéra, exhibition catalogue, 1934-1935
Louis de Fourcaud, Les Arts Décoratifs aux Salons de 1899, Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1899, ill. p. 255
G. Coquiot, Les figures de Carabin, L’Art Décoratif, 1907, ill. p. 29
Galerie du Luxembourg, L’Oeuvre de Rupert Carabin, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1974, ill. p. 181, n. 89 and n. 90
Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg, François-Rupert Carabin, exhibition catalogue, 1993, ill. p. 76, n.41 and n. 44
“LA NATURE SE DEVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE” OR “LA TERRE DEVOILANT SES TRESORS”, CIRCA 1890
Gilt bronze
Signed, and with foundry mark Susse Frères éditeurs, Paris
78 cm. high
Exhibition
Turin, 1911, Grand Prize
Bibliography
Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères, 1992, ill. p. 52, n. 87
UMBRELLA HANDLE, CIRCA 1910
Carved and patinated ivory shaped as a corncob, each grain inlaid with a gold nail in its center
Signed
16.3 cm. high
Bronze with a dark brown patina
Wooden base
Signed R. Carabin
19 x 32 cm.
A copy of the 1901-1902 model, dated 1910, can be found in the Musée d'Art Moderne in Strasbourg (Inv. 55.974.0.1001),
bequeathed by Auguste Dutreux, 1955
The original model of this group, in red wax, is in the Museum of Modern Art of Strasbourg
(1933, gift of Mrs. C. Merklen-Carabin)
First of the series of six works on the theme of Brittany, executed between 1901 and 1904
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1902
Société des Amis des Arts de Nantes, cat. n. 539, Nantes, 1905
Rupert Carabin, Musée Galliera, Paris, Novembre 1934 – March 1935, cat. n. 54 or 59
L'Oeuvre de Rupert Carabin, 1863-1932, Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris, cat. n. 98
Bibliography
Paul Vitry, La petite sculpture aux Salons, Art et Décoration, 1902, T. XII, p. 46, ill. p. 40
K. E. Schmidt, François Rupert Carabin, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, T. XV, 1904, ill. p. 64
K. E. Schmidt, Französische Skulptur und Architektur des 19. Jahrhunderts, Leizig, 1904, p. 71, ill. p. 66
La Décoration Moderne, 13ème année, 1905-1906, ill. pl. 82
Gustave Coquiot, Les figurines de Carabin, L'Art Décoratif, T. XVII, January 1907, ill. p. 25
“LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze sculpture with black, brown and gilt patinas
Signed, with foundry mark and numbered L857
54 cm. high
“LA PLEUREUSE”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a gilt patina representing
a woman covering her face
Signed
25 cm. high
“ADAM ET EVE”, OR “L’ETREINTE”, OR “PARADIS PERDU”, CIRCA 1900
Bronze with a green patina representing a naked couple, embracing; lost wax cast
Signed
33 cm. high
Another example in bronze: Gift of Mrs Alma de Bretteville Spreckels to the Museum of the Legion of Honor,
San Francisco, inv.: 1937-8-6, 1948, now at the Maryhill Museum, Washington, USA, inv.: 14-19
Another example in ivory: acquisition of the city of Paris for the Musée Galliéra collection, 1906, now at the Petit Palais,
Paris, inv. : O.GAL.129
Exhibition
Musée Galliéra, 1903, Art de l’Ivoire
Salon de la Société des Artistes français, 1905, section des Arts Décoratifs, n° 5017
Palais Galliéra, 1914 Exposition de la statuette et du meuble qui l’accompagne, n. 379
Inaugural Exposition of French Art in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park,
San Francisco, California, 1924-1925, example in bronze, n. 197
Bibliography
Maurice Rheims, The flowering of Art Nouveau“, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, n.d., example in ivory ill. p. 203, n° 250
L’Estampille, mars 1983, n° 155c, p. 63. “Adam et Eve enlacés, le visage de l’homme enfoui dans le creux de l’épaule de sa
compagne qui, angoissée, regarde le ciel…”
“LA NATURE SE DÉVOILANT DEVANT LA SCIENCE”, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze and marble sculpture with
polychrome highlights; the scarab in sodalite; the base in green marble
Signed E. Barrias, and with foundry mark Susse Frères éditeurs, Paris
58 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle of 1900, an example with two patinas illustrated in the exhibition catalogue,
Liège, 1903
Bibliography
Illustrated in the Susse Frères catalogues,
1905 and 1910
Les bronzes du XIXème, P. Kjellberg, Éd. de l'amateur 2005, p.50
Bronzes Sculptors & founders 1800-1950, H. Berman, Abage publishers, 1977 tome 3 n. 1387 p. 375
“DANSE” OR “FEMME NUE A L’ÉCHARPE”, 1906
Bronze sculpture; lost wax cast by Hébrard
Signed
34.3 cm. high
A similar example in terracotta at the musée d’Orsay, inv. n. RF3199
Model in plaster and tissue, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Exhibition
1914, Musée Galliéra, Exposition de la statuette et du meuble qui l’accompagne
Bibliography
Musée d’Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, similar example in terracotta illustrated p. 142, n. RF3199
Breaking the Mold-Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Rodin, Edited by Phillip Dennis Cate,
published by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, ill. p. 67, n°140,
October 23, 2005-March 12, 2006
“SALOMÉ”, CIRCA 1901
Gilt bronze; the base in green marble
Signed and bearing the foundry mark
31 cm. high
Bibliography
Albert Thomas, Petits bronzes d’art, L’Art décoratif, February 1901, ill. p. 187
“LE BAISER ZELANDAIS”, CIRCA 1920
Patinated bronze
Signed, bearing the rectangular seal Cire Perdue SIOT and numbered 1
34 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition de la Statuette et du Meuble, Musée Galliéra, 1914 (terracotta)