Young Girl

Modern Art

1929

Charles Despiau
French, 1874-1946

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Charles Despiau
Title: Young Girl
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1929
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Signed on base: "C. Despiau" Inscribed with foundry mark on base: "C. Valsuani/ 4/6"
Dimensions: 64.1 × 15.3 × 13.4 cm (25 1/4 × 6 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx
Reference Number: 1950.93
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Town and Country (March 1929), (ill.)
Palmer, Mildred, Charles Despiau (New York: Arts Publishing Corporation, 1930s), n.p. (ill.), as Diane.
Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Sculpture by Charles Despiau, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1932), n.p. (cat. 2 or 3), as Diana (first state) or Diana (second state).
Institute of Modern Art, Charles Despiau, Aristide Maillol, exh. cat. (Boston: Institute of Modern Art, 1939), n.p. (cat. 46), as L’Adolescente, 1928.
Buchholz Gallery, Charles Despiau Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Buchholz Gallery, 1939), n.p. (cat. 14), as L’Adolescente, 1928.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings and Lithographs by Modern French Artists (Parke-Bernet, New York, October 20–21, 1943), pp. 80 (lot 184), 81 (ill.), as Adolescente (Diana).
Lebon, Elisabeth, “Charles Despiau (1874-1946): Catalogue raisonne de l’œuvre sculpte,” vol. 2, (Ph.D. dissertation, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1995), pp. 314 (cat. 98–4 (1) B), n.p. (pl. 529, ill.), as Adolescente.
Charles Janoray, Classical Modernity from Bourdelle to Despiau (New York: Charles Janoray, 2002), p. 32, fig. 2.

Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Sculpture by Charles Despiau, May 10–30, 1932, n.p. (cat. 2 or 3), as Diana (first state) or Diana (second state).
Boston, Institute of Modern Art, Charles Despiau, Aristide Maillol, January 31–February 26, 1939, n.p. (cat. 46), as L’Adolescente, 1928.
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Charles Despiau Sculpture, March 21–April 15, 1939, n.p. (cat. 14), as L’Adolescente, 1928.

The artist; Frank Crowninshield, New York, c. 1929 [this and the following according to Parke-Bernet 1943]; sold, probably through Parke-Bernet, New York, Oct. 20–21, 1943, lot 184, to Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 8, 1950.

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