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François POMPON ( 1855 - 1933 )

COSETTE

Bronze, richly shaded clear brown patina
H: 80,5 cm, L : 35 cm, D: 23,5 cm
Lifetime cast signed "Pompon", titled "Cosette", cast and old edition by Siot Decauville fondeur (without seal and "3737").
Circa 1893

Edition details :
Only example identified for this first reduction.
one in the life size, 4 for both reductions.

Exhibition & Museum references :
Salon in 1888, U. E. 1889 (plaster, V. Hugo Museum).
Salon in 1890 (bronze).
Salon in 1898 & U. E. 1900 (marble).


Bronze à patine brun clair richement nuancé.
Haut : 80,5 cm, Long : 35 cm, Prof : 23,5 cm
Épreuve ancienne signée "Pompon", titrée "Cosette", fonte et édition ancienne de "Siot Decauville fondeur" (cachet et "3737").
Circa 1893

Details de cette édition :
Seule épreuve répertoriée dans cette première réduction.
Une dans la grandeur originale et quatre pour les deux petites réductions confondues.


Références muséales et d'exposition :
Salon de 1888, E.U 1889 (plâtre, musée V.Hugo). 
Salon de 1890 (bronze)
Salon de 1898  & E.U 1900 (marbre)

 

Cosette is exhibited in full size, first in plaster, at the Salon des Artistes Français (1888) and then at the Universal Exhibition the following year. It reappears, in bronze this time, at the Salon in 1890 (an only example listed in that size and not localized today) as belonging to the foundries Siot and Persinka, which suggests the beginning of the edition at that time. Aware that Cosette can impose herself, Pompon wants to make it in marble in order to propose it to the French state. The latter then refused three times despite the political support of the member and the senator from his hometown, and the artistic recommendations of his employers.

With the incomes of his practices, Pompon bought the marble block at his own expense and sent his work to the Salon des Artistes Français (1898) and then to the Universal Exhibition the following year. Despite this rich pedigree, and the ten years of action of Pompon, the marble is not purchased by the French State and the bronze edition by Siot Decauville was stopped progressively. The Cosette already presents its helical composition, which will make its success in animal sculpture, « Movement creates Form».

François POMPON