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Petit Désespoir, plaster
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Musée Faure, Aix-Les-Bains
10 bd des Côtes
F- 73100 Aix-les-Bains, France
Tel. +33 - 4 79 - 61 06 57
Conservator: Mr Liatard et Ms Bernard-Denis
From the official Website:
"Docteur Faure was a pharmacist who lived in Aix-les-Bains and
worked in Chambéry, where he made the "Elixir Bonjean". The
rest of his time was spent in Paris where he indulged in his true
passion : art. Painters were made welcome at his apartment in Rue
Rembrandt and he was a frequent visitor to art galleries. He bought
paintings at sales or from private individuals such as Francis Carco.
Advised by a dealer, André Schoeller, he gathered together a large
collection of about a hundred landscapes and nudes, mainly of the
Impressionist school.
He bequeathed his collection to Aix-les-Bains, where it has been
shown since 1949 in a villa called "Les Chimères".
It is the richest collection from the Impressionist period to be seen in
a provincial gallery today. The gallery was completely redecorated in
1985 and contains paintings by Corot, Boudin, Jongkind, Cézanne,
Sisley, Pissaro, Fantin-Latour, Degas, Bonnard, Vuillard, Marquet and
Foujita.
It also holds a large group of sculptures by Carpeaux, Degas and
especially Rodin, who was a friend of Docteur Faure's. Full of
admiration for his work, Faure bought no less than 33 pieces by Rodin -
the whole of the Porte de l'Enfer (Gates of Hell) series which was to
decorate the facade of the Paris Musée des Arts Décoratifs (except for
the Thinker) ; busts such as those of Danielli or Manon Lescaut ;
expression sculptures like the Walking Man or slender, long limber nudes
with slightly tilted hips.
The Lepic collection of regional pottery from Dauphiné and Savoy
can also be found in the Musée Faure. It includes several pieces from
the La Forest Pottery founded at Saint-Ours near Aix in the XVIII
century. It also contains porcelain from Vienna, Berlin and Sèvres and
one Lalique vase."
The Rodin collection consist of 33 smaller works, including
several plasters and a number of terracottas, bronzes and marbles.
La Petite Baigneuse, patinated plaster
Le Désespoir, plaster
Succube, plaster
Les Sirenes, plaster
Bust of Carrier-Belleuse, patinated plaster
Femmes Damnées, plaster
Manon Lescayt, terra-cotta
Polypheme, terra-cotta
Cariatide, terra-cotta
Museum catalog available at the Museum
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