1Joseph BERNARD (1866-1931)
Female torso
Bronze.
Signed... Lot 44
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1Joseph BERNARD (1866-1931)
Female torso
Bronze.
Signed lower left.
Bears the stamp of the Cire Perdue A foundryman. HEBRARD and the number (20) below the right hip.
H. 28 x W. 11 x D. 8 cm
BIBLIOGRAPHIE : René Jullian, Joseph Bernard, Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuses, Fondation de Coubertin, 1989, model number 141, p. 297.
This Torso of a woman derives from the study of the figure of Glory for the project of a Monument to the Dead of the Air Force (plaster model destroyed in 1921). This fragmentary representation of a woman's torso, a patriotic song rising from her open mouth, testifies to the artist's creative process, turned towards the succession of variants of a work, reworking partial elements of it. Thus his work on another monumental work undertaken in his youth, The Monument to Michel Servet, is an opportunity to extract other subjects, such as the figures of Remord or Michel Servet, or the groups of Tenderness and Youth Charmed by Love. The bronze edition of this model, limited to 50 copies, was entrusted to Hébrard and was a great success. At the time of the publication of the catalogue raisonné, the strongest known number was the 26. Ours bears the n°20.
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