Childhood Personified by Camille Claudel

Published on 17 September 2021, by Caroline Legrand

Auction on 26 September 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) - 4, avenue Bourbon - 60500 Chantilly

Camille Claudel made this emotional portrait just after losing her child and renouncing motherhood.

Camille Claudel (1864–1943) La Petite Châtelaine (The Little Chatelaine), posthumous... Childhood Personified by Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel (1864–1943) La Petite Châtelaine (The Little Chatelaine), posthumous bronze cast, curved braid version, nuanced brown patina, signed "C. Claudel" on the back, numbered "HC 2/4" and bearing the octagonal stamp of the founder Delval, 30.5 x 30.5 x 20.5 cm/12.00 x 12.00 x 8.07 in.
Estimate: €35,000/40,000

Camille Claudel presented this sculpture in 1894, first at La Libre esthétique ("The Free Aesthetics", an artistic society founded in 1893) in Brussels under the title of Contemplation , then at the Société nationale des beaux-arts exhibition in Paris as Portrait d'une petite chatelaine (…

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