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Sculpture in bronze patina green representing a naked woman or bathing seated, signed LP for Lucile Passavant *, numbered 4/6, cachet of founder A.Valsuani **, lost wax casting, on a black marble base, century.
This sculpture is in good condition. It is signed and numbered see photos.
Please note: slight wear and tear, see photos.
Poet in his youth, is a painter pastel artist, sculptor and engraver on wood (1910-2012). It was in 1928 that Lucile Passavant was greeted at Marly-le-Roi by Aristide Maillol (1861-1944). As early as 1929, Maurice Denis, Ker-Xavier Roussel, and especially Harry Kessler, who invited Maillol and Lucile to stay at his home in Weimar in June 1930, realized in the vicinity of the master his first sculptures in clay and That in 1931 she became the engraver on wood of Maillol's work, the remainder after 1934, when Dina Vierny, the last and most famous of the muses of Maillol, arrives in the intimacy of the old artist. The great period of his exhibitions, particularly in Paris and London, was between 1954, the year of his first bronze sculptures (published in the wax lost by the Valsuani Foundry), and 1975. He was then called a surrealist artist, An epithet suggested, for it never binds itself to this movement.
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Now renamed Airaindor Valsuani or Fonderie de Chevreuse, is a bronze foundry of French art, located in Chevreuse. The Valsuani Foundry was founded in Chatillon in 1899 by Claude Valsuani. After the death of its founder in 1923, his son, Marcel Valsuani, succeeded him and he entrusted the management to his foreman Antoine Tamburro, from 1936 to 1976. This foundry has always been famous for the quality of its wax cast iron lost. She has worked for the greatest artists, including Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle, Pablo Picasso, François Pompon, Dora Gordine, Charles Despiau, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas and Arno Breker.
