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ALFRED BOUCHER (FRENCH 1850-1934)

Buste de Volubilis


marble
height: 44.5 cm (17 1/2 in.)
signed on base

LOT NOTES
Mentor to Camille Claudel and friend of Auguste Rodin, the sculptor Alfred Boucher's series of "Volubilis" was based on the idea of a beautiful female emerging from a rough and crudely carved rock. Boucher's extraordinarly facility with marble, and carving in three-quarter relief, achieves this effect powerfully, and demonstrates why Boucher was considered to be one of the favorite sculptors of the 19th Century by nobility, academics, and fellow artists.

Estimate: $5,000 – $7,000

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