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Winterauktionen 24.–25.11.2023
Dalou, Aimé-Jules
1838 Paris - 1902 ibid.
«Bineur». «Le Paysan à la binette».
After 1910. Bronze, brown patinated. Signed on the plinth «DALOU», inscribed «cire perdue» and «Susse Fes Eds Paris». Foundry stamp «SUSSE FRERES EDITEURS PARIS» on the tree trunk.
H 9,5, W 8,5 cm.
The peasant with the hoe belongs to a group of works depicting workers and peasants from 1894. Known as a sculptor of the Third Republic with the monumental open-air sculpture «The Triumph of the Republic» at the Place de la Nation in Paris, Dalou here rather shows his sympathy with the workers' movement, which was to cumulate in his last unfinished work, the «Monument to the Workers». The farmer with hoe was cast at Susse as from 1910.
Literature: Amélie Simier, Jules Dalou, le sculpteur de la République, Catalogue des sculptures de Jules Dalou conservées au Petit Palais, Paris 2013, no. 210 (terracotta model cf.).

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