The Rich Hours of Rupert Carabin

Published on 08 March 2021, by Claire Papon

Auction on 12 March 2021 - 14:00 (CET) - Vente Live à huis clos - 75009 Paris

The Alsace sculptor's striking clock, L'Envolée des heures (The Flight of Hours), is now featuring in the "One work, one sale" concept.

Rupert Carabin (1862-1932), L'Envolée des heures, clock in patinated bronze and amethyst,... The Rich Hours of Rupert Carabin

Rupert Carabin (1862-1932), L'Envolée des heures, clock in patinated bronze and amethyst, red rectangles in fine stone marked with Roman numerals, unique piece, c. 1910, 100 x 77 x 27 cm (39.4 x 30.3 x 10.6 in).
Estimate: €150,000/200,000

"Unique" certainly applies to this piece commissioned directly from the artist, produced in 1910 and presented the following year at the exhibition of the Société Nationale des Beaux-arts from April 16 to June 30. It was described in the catalog as "a clock executed to adorn a mantlepiece…

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