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10 - François POMPON (1855–1933)
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Estimate €10,000 - €12,000
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François POMPON (1855–1933) ‘Canard pattu’ or ‘Canard à patte’, condition B Design created in 1921 Patinated bronze sculpture. Posthumous lost-wax casting by Valsuani. Signed “Pompon”, numbered 8/12 and stamped “cire perdue C. Valsuani” on the base. H: 18 cm (slight scratches) A “Duck” bronze sculpture from a posthumous lost-wax cast by Valsuani, based on the design created by François Pompon in 1921. Signed “Pompon”, numbered 8/12 and stamped “Cire Perdue Valsuani”. H: 7.09 inches (scratches from wear) Exhibitions: - “François Pompon, 1855–1933”, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 17 October 1994 – 23 January 1995; another cast of the model was exhibited. Bibliography: - Liliane Colas and Côme Remy: “Pompon, l’œuvre complète”, Norma Éditions, 2025, model reproduced and referenced on page 283. - Brame and Lorenceau: “Pompon”, catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Clermont-Ferrand from Tuesday 14 September to Monday 25 October 1999, Brame and Laurenceau, Paris, 1999; another cast of the model reproduced and referenced under number 2. - *Mobilier & Décoration*, January 1932, plaster cast of another version of the model reproduced on page 117. - Armand Dayot, *Les Animaux, Volume 3*, Editions d’Art Charles Moreau, Paris, 1929, model reproduced on plate 38. - Robert Rey: *François Pompon*, G. Grès & Cie Éditions, 1928, another cast of the model reproduced on plate 14. - Roger Allard (Editor): “Les Sculpteurs Français Nouveaux”, no. 4, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, Paris, Gallimard, 1926, model reproduced on page 31. - *L’Art et les Artistes*, issue 43, January 1924, plaster cast of the model reproduced on page 152. Museum holdings: - A specimen in a different version is held in the Musée d’Orsay’s collections under inventory number RF 4045.
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About the sale Masters VI – 20th-Century Decorative Arts
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Auction time 11/06/2026 at 2:00 PM
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YANN GIRAULT
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