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Joaquim Claret (1879-1964) Leda and the swan
Circa 1940
Terr…
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Joaquim Claret (1879-1964) Leda and the swan
Circa 1940
Terr…
See original version (French)
Lot no. 209
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Joaquim Claret (1879-1964)
Leda and the swan
Circa 1940
Terracotta group
Signed "J. Claret" on the terracotta
H. 32 x W. 31 x D. 12.5 cm, on a sculpted stone base decorated with two swans in bas-relief
After training at the Barcelona Academy of Fine Arts, Joaquim Claret realised that he really needed to go to Paris to make a name for himself. He probably arrived in 1905, the year in which he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français. Joining Aristide Maillol's studio, he became one of his practitioners for at least two years, from 1907 to 1908. During the First World War, Joaquim Claret was stranded in Catalonia, where he had gone on a honeymoon. His career came to a standstill until Maillol accelerated his return to France in 1921. The Bernheim Jeune gallery devoted an exhibition to him from 5 to 13 December 1921.
Following in Maillol's footsteps, Claret found his inspiration in mythology. Breaking away from the style of his master, he developed a very personal artistic expression that won him the recognition of his peers and friends, such as Maurice Denis: "It is not so much, like Maillol, the voluptuousness of the finished form that you seek in these nymphs and bacchantes, but rather the moving arabesque, the right counterpoint of homogeneous and well-balanced volumes: it is less the human canon that interests you, than this sort of musical canon [...]".
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