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MAX BLONDAT (1872-1925 )Laughter sometimes called...

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MAX BLONDAT (1872-1925 )Laughter sometimes called Pink Baby(s) also called Baby with Roses, the motif conceived around [1908] Sculpture. Proof in terracotta, possibly with a former patina. Early edition. A crack at the back, traces of patina remaining. Signed Max BLONDAT and marked A2 on the back. Height : 61 cmHistory : Max Blondat realized the model of our sculpture for a project of fountain Laughter and Crying for the city of Zurich : a laughing child surmounts the head of an old man in tears . Bibliography : Bruno Foucart and Alice Fleury - Les sculptures de Max Blondat (1872-1925) du Modern Style à l'Art déco - Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Musée départemental de l'Oise in 1979, éditions du Musée départemental de l'Oise, Beauvais, 1979 . A similar model presented under number 26 of the catalogue and reproduced on page 24.