Joseph Bernard (1866-1931)

Jeune fille à la cruche

Details

Joseph Bernard (1866-1931)
Jeune fille à la cruche
Executed by the Valsuani foundry from an addition of twenty-eight, this example numbered 21
patinated-bronze
25 in. (64 cm.) high
marked in the bronze J. Bernard c no. 21 and foundry cachet C.VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE
Executed 1910, designed circa 1930.

Literature

Yvonne Brunhamer and Suzanne Yise, French Decorative Art: the Société des Artisetes Décorateurs 1900-1942, Paris, 1990, p.190

Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Paris, 2001, p.89

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Lot Essay

A plaster of this work, also titled Jeune fille à la cruche. was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1912, then at the Armory Show in 1913, and featured alongside works by Brancusi, Maillol and Lehmbruck. This bronze example was executed in an edition of twenty-eight examples by the Valsuani foundry.

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