Camille CLAUDEL (1864-1943) Femme à sa toilette or Femme lis - Lot 144

Camille CLAUDEL (1864-1943) Femme à sa toilette or Femme lisant une lettre, circa 1895-1897 Posthumous bronze proof with brown patina shaded with green, 4/8. Cast with Delval lost-wax technique. Signed (on the terrace in front) C.Claudel Foundry stamp and numbering (on the edge of the terrace, right-hand side): CIRE PERDUE/ DELVAL 4/8. Height: 37 cm - Width: 36 cm - Depth: 27.5 cm Provenance: - Paris, Drouot, sale Millon & Associés, 28/03/2008, n°9. - France, private collection. Bibliography: - Anne RIVIERE, Bruno GAUDICHON, Danielle GHANASSIA, Camille Claudel catalog raisonné, 3e édition augmentée, Paris, Adam Biro, 2001, see model 49 pp.155-156 - Reine-Marie PARIS, Philippe CRESSENT, Camille Claudel catalog raisonné, 5e édition revue, corrigée, augmentée, Paris, Economica, 2019, see model 109, pp.666-668. - Reine-Marie PARIS and Philippe CRESSENT, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, 5th edition, Ed Culture Economica, 2019, no. 109 p. 666. The work will be included in the Catalogue critique de l'oeuvre de Camille Claudel currently in preparation at Galerie Malaquais under the direction of Eve TURBAt, under number 2021-0438B. A certificate from Monsieur François de MASSARY, the artist's grand-nephew, dated December 21, 2000, will be given to the buyer. There was no anthume edition of Femme lisant une lettre. When it was used for the posthumous edition, the plaster cast of Femme lisant une lettre belonged to François de MASSARY (1930-2012), the artist's grand-nephew. In 2017, it entered the collections of the Musée de Sainte-Croix in Poitiers (inv.2017.2.2). The posthumous edition of Femme lisant une lettre was entrusted to the DELVAL foundry (twelve copies: eight numbered from 1/8 to 8/8 and four artist's proofs EA I/IV to EV IV/IV). The bronzes from this edition no longer show the network of seams visible on the plaster. Copy 2/8 is in the Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine (inv.2010.6.20) and copy 5/8 in the Museo Soumaya, Mexico City (inv.508).