Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) Zeus, torso,... - Lot 160 - Crait + Müller

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Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) Zeus, torso,... - Lot 160 - Crait + Müller
Robert WLÉRICK (1882-1944) Zeus, torso, 1937 Bronze proof numbered 4/10. Sand cast by Alexis Rudier. Signed (on the back, lower right): R. Wlérick. 65 x 30 x 20 cm PROVENANCE: Artist's studio; by descent. BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Robert Wlérick, Actes du colloque de 1995, Éditions musées de Mont-de-Marsan, 1999, p. 68, repr. (bronze print, H. 126 cm). EXHIBITIONS : - Robert Wlérick (1882-1944), Paris, Musée Rodin, 31 March-28 June 1982; Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick, 17 July-26 September 1982, Éditions Musée Rodin, 1982, no. 66 p. 67, repr. (bronze proof, sand casting Alexis Rudier, H. 126 cm). - Robert Wlérick (1882-1944), Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick, 17 July-26 September 1991, p. 54, repr. (bronze print, H. 126 cm). - Wlérick, Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade, 26 March-20 June 1994, p. 31, repr. (bronze print, H. 126 cm). - Robert Wlérick, études, esquisses et dessins, Mont-de-Marsan, musée Despiau-Wlérick, 24 June-5 September 1994; Paris, musée Bourdelle, 1 February-14 May 1995; Poitiers, musée Sainte-Croix, 6 October-10 December 1995; Chambéry, musée des beaux-arts, 1 February-30 April 1996, Paris-Musées, 1994, no. 57 p. 20, repr. (bronze print, sand casting Alexis Rudier, H. 60 cm). This torso is taken from a complete figure executed for the 1937 International Exhibition, which Wlérick has completely reinterpreted. The model exists in two sizes (H. 126 cm and H. 65 cm). The large model is limited to eight copies and four artist's proofs; the proof numbered 1/8 is kept in the collections of the Musée national d'Art moderne (Inv. AM 715 S).
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