Camille Claudel (1864-1943)

L'Implorante, petit modèle

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Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
L'Implorante, petit modèle
signed, stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'C. Claudel EUG BLOT PARIS 36' (on the top of the base)
bronze with dark brown and black patina
Height: 11 in. (28.1 cm.)
Conceived circa 1898; this bronze version cast by 1920

Gropper Art Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, May 1971.

H. Asselin, "La vie artistique: Camille Claudel sculpteur," Extinfor, Pages de France, no. 8239, 1951, p. 3.
A. Rivière, L'Interdite, Camille Claudel, Paris, 1983, p. 76, no. 23.
R.-M. Paris and A. de la Chapelle, L'oeuvre de Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, pp. 164-166, no. 43 (another cast illustrated, p. 166).
G. Bouté, Camille Claudel, Le miroir et la nuit, Paris, 1995, pp. 146 and 148 (another cast illustrated, pp. 151-152).
R.-M. Paris, Camille Claudel re-trouvée, catalogue raisonné,
Paris, 2000, pp. 338-344, no. b (another cast illustrated, p. 342).
A. Rivière, B. Gaudichon and D. Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2004, pp. 138-144, no. 44.9 (another cast illustrated, p. 143).
R.-M. Paris, Chère Camille Claudel, histoire d'une collection, Paris, 2012, no. 2 (another cast illustrated in color).

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Madame Reine-Marie Paris has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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