La Critique artistique
This wax humorously evokes the links between creation and criticism in the second half of the 19th century in the form of an allegory. With her back arched, her red hair drawn back into a chignon and held in place by a kind of vine leaf from which two curls escape, a young woman holds, in her left hand, a green pen as big as herself. In her right hand, placed on her hip, she holds a pair of binoculars. She stands upright, with bare feet, on some scattered newspapers. Sure of herself, arrogant even, this small idol seems to be waiting for artists to come and bow down before her.
Art Criticism bears a resemblance to another work by Carabin, Glory (1896, a vide-poches in boxwood, private collection), a tribute to the popular singer Polaire (1874-1939), whose portrait Toulouse-Lautrec executed in 1906. These two objects are in fact dedicated to the critic Roger Marx (1859-1913) who, through his articles as an art historian and in his position at the heart of the Beaux-Arts administration, fought for the recognition of the decorative arts.
Inscription sur le devant de la terrasse, à l'encre : La Critique Artistique
- collection Roger Marx (donné par Carabin à Roger Marx)
- jusqu'en 1999, dans la collection Robert Tschoudoujney
- 1999, accepté par l'Etat à titre de don aux Musées nationaux (comité du 18/03/1999, conseil du 24/03/1999, arrêté du 12/05/1999 ; Don de M. Robert Tschoudoujney par l'intermédiaire de M. Marc Bascou)
- 1999, attribué au musée d'Orsay
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Pingeot, Anne, 48/14 La revue du Musée d'Orsay, "Nouvelles acquisitions", Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000, p. 32-33
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Horner, Nadège, Répertoire sommaire des sculptures polychromes de la 2e moitié du XIXe siècle conservées dans les collections publiques françaises ; En couleurs, la sculpture polychrome en France, 1850-1910, Paris, Hazan - Musée d'Orsay, 2018, p.193
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