ANTIQUE FRENCH WOOD CARVING OF ELDERLY WOMAN "VIEILLE DE COMFORT" SIGNED CLAUDEL

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ANTIQUE FRENCH WOOD CARVING OF ELDERLY WOMAN "VIEILLE DE COMFORT" SIGNED CLAUDEL:
$30750.00

VERY RARE & LARGE 19TH CENTURYFRENCH WOOD HAND

CARVING OF AN ELDERLY WOMANBY OR AFTER FRENCH ARTIST

CAMILLE CLOUDEL(1864-1943)

IN ANTIQUE CONDITIONNO DAMAGES. NO REPAIRS, MUSEUM QUALITY.

CAMILLE ROSALIE CLAUDEL WAS A FRENCH SCULPTOR KNOWN

FOR HER FIGURATIVE WORKS, HER ORIGINALITY AND QUALITY.

MOSTLY IN BRONZE OR MARBLE DONE FOR HER

BY FOUNDRIES IN FRANCE.

ITS VERY RARE TO FIND AN ORIGINAL

HAND MADE & SIGNED WOOD CARVINGBY OR AFTER CAMILLE CLAUDEL.

MEASURING APPROXIMATELY: 20INCHES - 51CENTIMETERS-TALL.

17 INCHES,43 CENTIMETRS - WIDE.

WE FIND ARTIST SIGNATURE "CLAUDEL" INCISED ON LOWER FRONT.

DONE WHILE CARVING AND NOT AFTER FINISHED.

A METAL STICKER IN FRENCH SAYS "VIEILLE DE COMFORT"

THIS ART WORK BY THIS ARTIST WOOD CARVING

IS VERY HEAVY ITS HARD WOOD, NO FRAME, ITS DONE AS ONE PIECE.

CAMILLE CLAUDEL HAD A TRAGIC LIFE, SHE WAS THE LOVER OF

SCALPTORAUGUSTE RODIN, NEVER MARIED.

SHE HAD A STUDIO IN PARIS FRANCE, IN 1912 AT AGE 48 HER BROTHER PAUL

CLAUDEL PUTHER IN THE VILLE EVRARD ASYLUM BECAUSE SHE HEARD VOICES,

SHE LIVEDTHERE FOR 30 YEARS THE REST OF HER LIFE, SHE DIED AT AGE 79 IN 1943.

THIS ART WORK REPRESENTS AN OLD WOMAN THAT AT THAT TIME WOULD COME

TO A FAMILY THAT HAD A TRAGEDY TO COMFORT THEM, CRY WITH THEM, ETC.

THE EXPRESSION AND MODELING OF THIS ELDERLY WOMAN'S

FACE SHOW CONSIDERABLE SKILL. C. CLAUDEL DID A SCALPTOR NAMED

"LA VIEILLE HELENE". THE MUSEUM BRASS STICKER ON THE LOWER

FRONT READS "VIEILLE DE COMFORT".

MY LATE WIFE BOUGHT IT FROM A SMALL MUSEUM THAT CLOSED,

OVER 55 YESARS AGO.

THIS IS A PRIVATE LISTING, BUYERS WILL REMAIN ANONYMOUS.

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