FRANCOIS-RUPERT CARABIN – “DANSE BRETONNE”, 1901-1902

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