About This Artwork

Charles Despiau
French, 1874-1946

Young Girl, 1929

Bronze
25 1/4 x 6 x 5 1/4 in. (64.1 x 15.3 x 13.4 cm)
Signed on base: "C. Despiau"
Inscribed with foundry mark on base: "C. Valsuani/ 4/6"
Gift of Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx, 1950.93

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Sculpture by Charles Despiau from the Collection of Mr. Frank Crowninshield, May 10-13, 1932, no. 2 or 3.

Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, Charles Despiau/Aristide Maillol, January 31–February 26 [after 1938], no. 46; exhibition possibly traveled to: New York, Buchholz Gallery, Charles Despiau Sculpture, March 21–April 15 [n.d.], no. 14(?).

Publication History

Vanity Fair (June 1928), ill.

Town & Country (March 1929), ill.

Charles Despiau (New York: The Arts Publishing Corporation, [193-?]), ill.

Elisabeth Lebon, “Charles Despiau (1874-1946): Catalogue raisonne de l’ouevre sculpte,” vol. 2, unpublished diss. Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1995, pp. 312–26, cat. 98–4 (1) B, pl. 529.

Charles Janoray, Classical Modernity from Bourdelle to Despiau 1907-1937, p. 32, fig. 2.

Ownership History

Frank Crowninshield, New York, purchased directly from the artist, c. 1929 [label “Crown. #46” under base]; sold to Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx, probably at Parke-Bernet, “The Frank Crowninshield Collection of Modern French Art,” October 20-21, 1943 [lot 184]; gift to the Art Institute, 1950.