ALFRED BOUCHER (French, 1850-1934)

Details

ALFRED BOUCHER (French, 1850-1934)

'Au but!', A Bronze Group of Three Runners Racing

inscribed A. BOUCHER and stamped SIOT^.PARIS and Z43
17½in. (44.5cm.) high, on waisted Brescian marble socle

Literature

P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle: Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs, Paris, 1987, pp. 118-119 (illus.)
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Nineteenth Century French Sculpture: Monuments for the Middle Class, November 2-December 5, 1971, pp. 59-60 (illus)

Lot Essay

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.