JOSEPH BERNARD (1866-1931) - Lot 10

JOSEPH BERNARD (1866-1931) JOSEPH BERNARD (1866-1931) "Grande Bacchante", Studio plaster, H 173 cm - H 68 in. Provenance : Private collection, Paris, acquired in 1966 and since kept in the same collection. History The first Grande Bacchante, made in Lens stone and now in the Musée d'Orsay, was presented at the Salon d'Automne in 1912, and a bronze version was exhibited at the 1919 Salon. Following this success, Joseph Bernard designed several copies in plaster, bronze and cement, and presented them at international exhibitions in Geneva (1920), San Francisco (1923), Tokyo, Osaka (1925) and Barcelona (1929). A plaster example is notably preserved at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble (purchased by the French State from the artist in 1921 - Inv.: MG 2086). BIBLIOGRAPHY: - "Joseph Bernard, de pierre et de volupté", edited by Alice Massé and Sylvie Carlier, catalog of the exhibition at La Piscine in Roubaix in 2020; the stone visible in photos of the studio, fig 14 p. 31 and fig 17, p 32, no. 173 (the Musée d'Orsay stone) and 174 the 1921 plaster cast (Musée de Grenoble). In the notice, Valérie Montalbetti notes that Bernard had copies made in plaster cement and bronze for the world's fairs in the 1920s. - René Jullian, "Joseph Bernard", Fondation Coubertin, 1889, stone model reproduced on pages 146 and 320; (three plaster models mentioned). Exhibition: Similar model presented at the entrance to the Pavillon de Marsan during the first Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs exhibition in spring 1923.