MONUMENT OF MONT DE MARSAN: THE WIFE (1920-1921) "Figure... Lot 6

MONUMENT OF MONT DE MARSAN: THE WIFE (1920-1921) "Figure of the young mother version without child". Proof in bronze with black patina Signed C. DESPIAU on the left side Stamp C. VALSUANI LOST WAX N° 2/4 H. 31 cm, L. 15 cm, D. 7 cm This is one of the study versions in reduced model for the character of the wife where we notice that compared to the final state definitive state Charles DESPIAU represents her here without her baby and the chest a little more generous. It is Jeanne KAMIENSKA, sister-in-law of the French painter, draughtsman, lithographer and illustrator Berthold MAHN (1881-1975) who posed for the young woman on the right posed for the young woman on the right of the monument in the Square du Bourg-neuf. She is caught between the memory and the future compared to the old woman on the right of the monument who is mourning her son who died for France. The young woman remains confident and protects her child. Bibliography : Deliberation of the City Council of Mont-de-Marsan on November 24, 1918 to erect a monument to the war dead 1914-1918 Le Républicain Landais March 1919 publication of the specifications Monument inaugurated on November 11, 1922 The MNAM keeps the preparatory drawing representing a study of an infant (d.96)