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Paul Paulin (1852-1937) Albert Lebourg (1849-1928) Small life bust in bronze with brown patina Signed "PAUL PAULIN" on the left shoulder, bears the Hébrard foundry stamp Bears a dedication on the reverse, partly illegible, "to my friend...Lebourg". H. 20 cm This bust of the impressionist painter Albert Lebourg is part of the series of artist portraits by Paul Paulin. Paulin frequented the salons and became friends with, among others, Edgar Degas. On the occasion of the 1909 Salon, Pierre Goujon wrote that Paulin "continues this remarkable series of portraits of artists which will be an indispensable contribution to the psychological study of our modern painting. I hope that we will have the idea of grouping, in the museum that will be opened to the undisputed triumph of their ideal and their method, the portraits of Pissarro, of MM. Degas, Renoir, Claude Monet, Lebourg and Guillaumin. There is no need to note a controlled resemblance, and which, to tell the truth, is affirmed by all that the work has of natural and easy, of sure and robust. But it is necessary to admire that so many men, who do not open their intimate thoughts to all comers, have been so intelligently guessed, understood by another artist." Related work: -Paul Paulin, Albert Lebourg, circa 1905, small plaster bust, H. 19.8 x W. 28.1 x D. 15 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, inv. 2651.
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Paul Paulin (1852-1937) Albert Lebourg (1849-1928) Small life bust in bronze with brown patina Signed "PAUL PAULIN" on the left shoulder, bears the Hébrard foundry stamp Bears a dedication on the reverse, partly illegible, "to my friend...Lebourg". H. 20 cm This bust of the impressionist painter Albert Lebourg is part of the series of artist portraits by Paul Paulin. Paulin frequented the salons and became friends with, among others, Edgar Degas. On the occasion of the 1909 Salon, Pierre Goujon wrote that Paulin "continues this remarkable series of portraits of artists which will be an indispensable contribution to the psychological study of our modern painting. I hope that we will have the idea of grouping, in the museum that will be opened to the undisputed triumph of their ideal and their method, the portraits of Pissarro, of MM. Degas, Renoir, Claude Monet, Lebourg and Guillaumin. There is no need to note a controlled resemblance, and which, to tell the truth, is affirmed by all that the work has of natural and easy, of sure and robust. But it is necessary to admire that so many men, who do not open their intimate thoughts to all comers, have been so intelligently guessed, understood by another artist." Related work: -Paul Paulin, Albert Lebourg, circa 1905, small plaster bust, H. 19.8 x W. 28.1 x D. 15 cm, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, inv. 2651.
