ALFRED BOUCHER (FRENCH, 1850-1934)

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ALFRED BOUCHER (FRENCH, 1850-1934)

'Au But', A Bronze Group of Runners

inscribed 'A Boucher' and with separate tag inscribed 'AU BUT MÉDAILLE D'OR SALON 1886-87 ACQUIS PAR L'ÉTAT'
11½in. (29.2cm.) high, on Brescian marble socle, medium brown patina

出版

P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle: Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs, Paris, 1987, pp. 117-119, illus.
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Nineteenth Century French Sculpture: Monuments for the Middle Class, November 2-December 5, 1971, pp. 59-60, illus.

拍品專文

Boucher attracted the recognition of the Paris Academy with the entry of the present model in the Salon of 1886. Entitled Au but! or To the Goal!, the group won a first-class medal as well as critical acclaim. The next year the State commissioned a bronze enlargement for the Luxembourg Gardens.