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CAMILLE CLAUDEL (1856-1920)

Lot 332
18.11.2025 00:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1508036
Lot 332 | CAMILLE CLAUDEL (1856-1920)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
CAMILLE CLAUDEL (1856-1920)
L’Aurore
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry stamp ‘C. Claudel EUG. BLOT PARIS 6’ (on the back)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 12 ¾ in. (32.5 cm.)
Conceived circa 1893 and cast in 1908




Provenance

Eugène Blot, Paris.
Gustave Leblanc-Barbedienne, Paris (acquired from the above, 1937-1938).
Private collection, France (by 1988).
Anon. sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Carcassonne, 8 November 2008, lot 11.
Private collection, France (2009); sale, Millon & Associés, Paris, 22 June 2011, lot 19.
Private collection, France (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 November 2015, lot 192.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

A. Rivière, B. Gaudichon and D. Ghanassia, Camille Claudel: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2001, pp. 180-182, no. 63 (another cast illustrated).
R.-M. Paris and P. Cressent, Camille Claudel: Intégrale des oeuvres, Paris, 2014, pp. 338-347, no. 160 (other versions and casts illustrated).
R.-M. Paris and P. Cressent, Camille Claudel: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2019, pp. 557-579, no. 91-1 (other versions and casts illustrated).



Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, Eugène Blot, 1908.
Paris, Galerie H. Odermatt & Ph. Cazeau, Rétrospective Camille Claudel, December 1988-January 1989, no. 10 (illustrated on the cover).
Avignon, Palais des Papes, Les Papesses: Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, Berlinde de Bruyckere, 2013 (illustrated).
Roubaix, La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Camille Claudel: Au miroir d'un art nouveau, November 2014-February 2015, p. 278, no. 89 (illustrated, p. 111).
Artist:Camille Claudel (1864 - 1943)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Impressionism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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