Apel.les FENOSA (1899-1988) Woman speaking,... - Lot 125 - Crait + Müller

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Apel.les FENOSA (1899-1988) Woman speaking,... - Lot 125 - Crait + Müller
Apel.les FENOSA (1899-1988) Woman speaking, 1952 Bronze print, no. II /5. Susse lost wax casting. Signature of the foundryman (on the edge of the base) Susse Fondeur Paris. Signed Fenosa. 106 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm PROVENANCE : - Sala Gaspar - Private collection, Japan BIBLIOGRAPHY : - Dictionary of Modern Sculpture, Paris, Hazan, 1970. - Jean Leymarie, Apel.les Fenosa, Geneva, Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, 1993, repr. p. 100. - Nicole Fenosa, Bertrand Tillier, Fenosa catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre sculpté, Barcelona, Ediciones Poligrafa, 2002, Paris, Flammarion, 2002, repr. p. 216 and 217, listed under n°515. The Woman Who Speaks is one of Fenosa's rare models made in large dimensions. Her original plaster is kept at the Fondation Appel-les Fenosa in Spain, and two bronzes are located in addition to the one presented here: one in private hands, the other in the Rambouillet Museum. The Woman Who Speaks is part of the process of vegetalization of the human form that animated Fenosa until the 1960s, as well as his research on figuration, marked by the work of Giacometti. Sculptor of Catalan origin, trained with the sculptor Casanovas, Appel.les Fenosa stayed in Paris between 1921 and 1929, before settling permanently in France in 1939. He began his profession with direct carving, which he gradually left for modelling. During his first stay in France, he became close to the Spanish artists of the École de Paris, befriended Picasso and the writers Cocteau, Éluard and Michaux, whose busts he would later produce. Around 1950, in addition to the surrealist poetry that marked the beginning of his production, he began to search for unity between nature and man's creative gesture.
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