Lot 41

An accomplished sculptor and medalist, Raymond Delamarre is today best known for the 1934 bas-relief he created for the extraordinarily luxurious first-class dining room of the ocean liner the S.S. Normandie. Executed in stucco, as stone would have been too heavy, Delamarre's twenty by thirteen feet piece Les Arts et les Monuments Regionaux was situated to the right of the entrance to the dining room. Delamarre studied at the the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jules-Félix Coutan and won the Prix de Rome in 1919. He exhibited at the major French exhibitions in the 1920s and 30s, and in 1925 was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Internationale. In addition to the Normandie bas-relief, he produced numerous large-scale works, including a larger-than-life-sized bronze sculpture, La Pensée, for the Pontifical Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, and, in collaboration with the architect Michel Roux-Spitz, he created a granite monument celebrating the defense of the Suez Canal in Ismalila, Egypt (1926-30). He also worked on the interior decoration of the Hôtel George V in Paris.

RAYMOND DELAMARRE (1890-1986)

'TEMPTATION,' A FIGURAL SCULPTURE, CIRCA 1935

Details

RAYMOND DELAMARRE (1890-1986)
'TEMPTATION,' A FIGURAL SCULPTURE, CIRCA 1935
number 2 from an edition of 10, patinated bronze
37¼ in. (94.6 cm.) high, 46½ in. (118 cm.) wide, 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) deep
signed Raymond Delamarre 2/10

Provenance

Macklowe Gallery, New York;
Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 2002, lot 242.

Exhibited

Another cast, or possibly this example, was exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries, in Paris, 1935.

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Lot Essay

cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 81;
B. Foucart et al., Normandie: Queen of The Seas, Paris, 1985, p. 94.

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