FRANÇOIS POMPON (1855-1933) - Lot 6

FRANÇOIS POMPON (1855-1933) Coq dormant, model created before [1914], our proof numbered A5 and executed in July 1926. A sculpture. Black patina bronze proof. Lost-wax casting. Original edition by A.A. Hébrard (following the contract signed on April 16, 1918 between the sculptor and the publisher). Signed POMPON, bears the Cire perdue A.A. HÉBRARD stamp on the terrace, and the number A5 on the edge of the terrace at the back. Height: 22.5cm - Length: 29cm - Width: 12cm Bibliography: - Art et Décoration - March 1922. A plaster proof of the model, with terrace variation, reproduced on page 85. - Robert Rey - François Pompon - Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie, Paris, 1928. A plaster proof of the model, with variant terrace, reproduced on plate 12. - Liliane Colas, Anne Pingeot, Catherine Chevillot and Laure de Margerie - François Pompon 1855-1933 - Éditions Gallimard/Electa Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1994. Referenced in the chapter - Catalogue raisonné: Animaux - under number - 52A, copy no. A5 - and a bronze copy of the model reproduced on page 194.