Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Reine-Marie Paris dated Paris le 16 juin 2004.
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La jeune fille à la gerbe
Details
Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
La jeune fille à la gerbe
signed 'Camille Claudel' (on the left side of the base); numbered '2/8' (on the front); stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark 'FC' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 13¾ in. (35 cm.)
Conceived in 1887; this bronze version cast in 1983 in a numbered edition of eight plus four
La jeune fille à la gerbe
signed 'Camille Claudel' (on the left side of the base); numbered '2/8' (on the front); stamped with the Coubertin foundry mark 'FC' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 13¾ in. (35 cm.)
Conceived in 1887; this bronze version cast in 1983 in a numbered edition of eight plus four
Provenance
Maurice Coutot, Paris, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
R.M. Paris & A. de la Chapelle, L'Oeuvre de Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1990, no. 18 (another cast illustrated p. 112).
A. Rivière, B. Gaudichon & D. Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1996, no. 25 (terracotta version illustrated p. 79).
R.M. Paris, Camille Claudel re-trouvée, Paris, 2001, no. 19 (another cast illustrated p. 249).
A. Rivière, B. Gaudichon & D. Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1996, no. 25 (terracotta version illustrated p. 79).
R.M. Paris, Camille Claudel re-trouvée, Paris, 2001, no. 19 (another cast illustrated p. 249).
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.