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Marcel LEMAR

(Paris, 1892 - Paris , 1941)

"Varan du Nil"

Bronze
signed ‘LEMAR’, on the base
numbered 3, on the base
Stamped by the foundry C. Valsuani, on the base
Model created in 1928
H. 11 ; L. 61 ; P. 15,5 cm.









 

Provenance

Private collection, Paris














 

Literature

Armand Dayot, Les Animaux vus par les meilleurs animaliers, C. Moreau ed., 1929, pl. 11, repr. (plaster)
Stéphane Richemond, Les Salons des artistes coloniaux, L’Amateur ed., 2003, p. 182 ;
J. C. Hachet, Catalogue illustré des sculpteurs animaliers et fondeurs, Argus Valentines’ ed., 2005, Tome II, p. 753, repr. (bronze)
Black chalk drawing, a variant of our model, artist's family collection, exhibited in Roubaix, Musée La Pisicine, reproduced in the exhibition catalogue Les Lémar de La Piscine, SilvanaEditoriale ed., Milan, 2013, p. 11, n. E17.


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Marcel  LEMAR: "Varan du Nil", Bronze
signed ‘LEMAR’, on the base
numbered 3, on the base
Stamped by the foundry C. Valsuani, on the base
Model created in 1928
H. 11 ; L. 61 ; P. 15,5 cm.









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