Gustave VIOLET (1873 - 1952) - Lot 84

Gustave VIOLET (1873 - 1952) "Le troupeau" or "L'escamot", model created circa 1905. Black patina terracotta proof on free-standing terrace. Exhibition label "Perpignan au temps des Bausil" dated 2006 on reverse. Height 37 cm - Length 60 cm - Depth 26.5 cm History: model exhibited in Paris (1906, 1911), Perpignan (1909, 1910, 2006, 2013), Barcelona (1914), Thuir (1991) and Prades (2014). Bibliography: Pierre Roche, "La leçon d'une exposition. Le Grès, la Faïence et la Terre cuite au Musée Galliéra", Art et Industrie, January 1912, similar model reproduced (n.p.). Marie-Pierre Barba-Cuffi, Gustave Violet, l'humain au coeur d'une oeuvre, Éditions Talaia, Canet-en-Roussillon, 2015, similar model reproduced p. 67. Mònica Batlle & Ramon Gual, Gustave Violet - Catalogue des oeuvres d'un artiste catalan, singulier et pluriel, témoin de son temps, Biblioteca de Catalunya Nord XVI Terra Nostra & I.C.R.E.S - Universitat de Perpinyà, 2018, similar model referenced and reproduced p. 281. Collective, Le sculpteur Gustave Violet - Art, pensée et territoire, catalog of the eponymous exhibition presented from July 6 to October 21, 2018 at the Musée de Maricel in Sitges, Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges, Sitges, 2018, similar model referenced and reproduced p. 148.