Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
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
Provenance
Gropper Art Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, May 1971.
Literature
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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