Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) La petite Jeunesse Bronze... - Lot 72 - Crait + Müller

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Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) La petite Jeunesse Bronze... - Lot 72 - Crait + Müller
Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) La petite Jeunesse Bronze with a golden patina. Signed R. Wlerick on the back and numbered 6/10. Bears the stamp of the foundryman C. VALSUANI LOST WAX. H. 45 cm WORKS IN RAPPORT : - Robert Wlérick (1882-1944), La Jeunesse, 1935, lost wax bronze (Coubertin cast), H. 173 cm, Collections of the Coubertin Foundation, Inv. FC 88.2 ; - Robert Wlérick, La petite Jeunesse, plaster, Roubaix, La Piscine, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent, no. 2000.30.2. LITERATURE AT RAPPORT : Ss dir Philippe Camin, Robert Wlérick, Études, esquisses et dessins, catalogue of the exhibition held in 1994, Paris, Paris musées éd. 1994. In 1913 Robert Wlérick presented a first version of La Jeunesse at the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts. The sculptor takes his wife, Georgette Aldric, as his model. At the Salon de la Société nationale, Rodin, accompanied by Bourdelle, says of the work of Wlérick : "This is the sculpture of the future, it has no holes, the piece is one with the whole. » La Jeunesse's "real and authentic power of suggestion lies in the shaping of her torso, so vibrant and sensual...". Paul-Louis Rinuy sums up all the strength of this sculpture in these terms. Robert Wlérick understands that the essence of his Youth lies in his torso and this is why he decides in this Petite Jeunesse to focus on this part of the body. Arms and legs disappear because they are important peu : the belly is the expression of creation, life and youth. This work then takes on a more complete dimension than that of a simple study and becomes a culmination. This torso sums up Wlérick's plastic writing, that of a constant search for the full form inherited from Maillol and Despiau.
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