Gustave VIOLET (1873 - 1952) - Lot 91

Gustave VIOLET (1873 - 1952) "The Harvester" or "El Segador", model created circa 1930. Bas-relief in patinated plaster set in a varnished wooden base with quadrangular body (small chips to bas-relief and cracks to base). Signed G. Violet in the decoration and exhibition label "Perpignan au temps des Bausil" dated 2006 on the reverse of the frame. Height: 26 cm (total) - Length: 23.5 cm - Depth: 7.5 cm History: This may be a study or a variant by Gustave Violet for the panel depicting two harvesters on the stele of the Céret Canal Monument, inaugurated in 1937. Model exhibited in Perpignan (1930, 1972 and 2006) and Prades (2014). Bibliography: 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, variant of our model referenced and reproduced p. 501. 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, variant of our model referenced and reproduced p. 162.