Lot n° 31
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8000 - 10000
EUR
Auguste ZAMOYSKI (1893-1970) - Lot 31
Auguste ZAMOYSKI (1893-1970)
"Portrait formiste de Louis Marcoussis" Black patina bronze after the 1923 model. Height: 29.5 cm, black patina proof with small dents and scratches, signed "A. Zamoyski". Zamoyski", posthumous casting with founder's stamp "cire perdue C. Valsuani".
M. ZAGRODZKI Christophe Expert CVV message of December 20, 2024. "This is one of the most synthetic portraits by Zamoyski, who while pushing the stylization of his effigies to the extreme, knows how to retain the characteristic features of his models. The sculpture on display is a posthumous cast, as we know of no bronze versions from the Formista period. We do know that the original version was made by Zamoyski in black patinated plaster in 1923, with another portrait carved in stone the following year. Late editions, mainly by renowned foundrymen, fill this gap in the artist's heritage, especially given that he destroyed much of the work from this important period in his career."
Auguste Zamoyski, born on June 28, 1893 in Jabłoń, Poland, and died on May 19, 1970 in Saint-Clar-de-Rivière, was a Polish sculptor who participated in the Formist movement. Born into a large Polish noble family. His interest in aesthetic theory never waned. He took part in the creation of an expressionist artistic movement which, in 1919, took the name of Formism, "the most important aesthetic movement in independent Poland". The essential characteristic of the movement, according to Leon Chwistek, often considered, alongside Witkiewicz, as the main theoretician of Formism, was "the attempt to create a new style, based on the concepts of realism and beauty, which were developing from the experience of the Cubists, Futurists and Expressionists". Three periods are generally distinguished in the development of Zamoyski's work: - The Formist period (1917 - 1925), in Zakopane (Poland) - A Realist period (1925 - 1950) (France, Brazil) - A period of spiritual expressionism ( From 1950); last years in Brazil, France, Poland In 2002, Hélène Zamoyska donated a significant part of Auguste Zamoyski's work to the Abbey of Sylvanès, and the Musée Zamoyski opened its doors in 2009. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the sculptor's death (2020), an exhibition entitled Auguste Zamoyski. Thinking in Stone, and an edition of the sculptor's archives are organized in Poland (2017 - 2020) by the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw, in collaboration with the Musée Auguste Zamoyski in Sylvanès. On January 15, 2019, the collection of Zamoyski's works held at Sylvanes since 2009 was acquired by the National Museum in Warsaw. It comprises ninety-three pieces which have been on display in this museum since May 17, 2019.
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