Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)
PROPERTY FROM THE WALTER PACH COLLECTION
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)

Tête de Professeur Gosset

Details
Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918)
Tête de Professeur Gosset
bronze with a golden brown patina
Height: 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm.)
Conceived circa 1917-1918
Provenance
A gift from the family of the artist to the late owner.
Literature
W. Pach & R. Duchamp-Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Sculpteur 1876-1918, Paris, 1924, no. 85 (the plaster version illustrated).
Centre Georges Pompidou, Duchamp-Villon, collections du Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne et du Musée des beaux-arts de Rouen, Paris, 1998, no. 54 (the plaster, wax and another bronze cast illustrated).
Sale room notice
Please note that this work was a gift from the family of the artist to the late owner and not as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

The Association Duchamp-Villon-Crotti has confirmed the authenticity of this work. A certifcate will be given to the purchaser on request.

Executed during during his prolonged hospitalisation at the end of the war, this portrait of his doctor, Antonin Gosset, is the artist's last sculpture. Parting from the first life-like rendering with moustache of the same year (see Pompidou no. 52), the sculptor reduces the head to its two essential forms and dominant eye sockets. The haunting image is made more so when displayed as intended, hanging from the crown of the head.

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