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60 - François POMPON (1855-1933) Guinea fowl, state B Model creat…
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François POMPON (1855-1933) Guinea fowl, state B Model created in 1912; our example was cast on 28 August 1925. Proof in bronze with a dark brown patina. Signed "POMPON" on the terrace. Bears the founder's stamp "CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD" and the number "(19)" on the terrace. (Some wear to the patina). Height: 20 cm; Length: 21 cm Provenance: - Martinot, Savignat, Antoine sale of 13 October 2001 in Pontoise, lot n° 67 ; - Collection D., from a private mansion on the Right Bank. Bibliography - Catherine CHEVILLOT, Liliane COLAS, Anne PINGEOT, François Pompon 1855-1933, cat. Exp. Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 18 October 1994 to 22 January 1995, Paris, Gallimard / Electa, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1994, model listed under no. 153A, pp. 221-222, our copy listed on p. 221. - Liliane COLAS, Côme REMY, François Pompon, l'œuvre complète, Paris, Norma, 2025, model listed under no. 126, pp. 358-359, our copy listed on p. 359. Related work : - François POMPON, Pintade, between 1910 and 1912, bronze statuette, H. 20,1cm, signed "Pompon" and stamped "CIRE PERDUE / A HEBRARD", Pompon legacy, 1933, Calais, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la dentelle, inv. AM 547. "One day René (Demeurisse) was intrigued to see silk paper cones on a shelf in the studio, capping confused shapes. Pompon simply replied: "They're little sculptures that I'm having fun making. René asked to look at them and was surprised to see real masterpieces, these studies which were none other than the goose, the duck, the moorhen ... in all their beauty and purity of line". The written recollections of René Demeurisse's wife bear witness to this crucial moment, around 1919, when Pompon met the man who helped to lift him out of his patrician status and make him the true leader of twentieth-century animal sculpture. From the 1880s onwards, Pompon enjoyed creating animal subjects, working with shapes that were simplified to the extreme. In particular, he modelled small farmyard animals that he observed in the Normandy countryside, where he had acquired a house near that of his friend René de Saint-Marceaux. He exhibited his first animal bronze at the Salon of 1892 (Poulet, no. 2992). The famous publisher Adrien Hébrard took an interest in his series of domestic animals and in 1919, just after the end of the Great War, presented the first Pompon exhibition. The wax model of the guinea fowl was one of the first that the sculptor gave to the publisher. The first two bronzes were produced in 1914, and the majority of the edition was produced between 1918 and 1933. Our bronze, listed in the artist's catalogue raisonné, was cast on 28 August 1925 and sold in September of that year. Expert : Alexandre LACROIX & Élodie JEANNEST DE GYVES I Cabinet LACROIX-JEANNEST
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About the sale Modern drawings, paintings & sculptures - 20th century decorative arts & design
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