Jules DESBOIS (1851-1935) The Wave Gilded bronze Signed... Lot 242

Jules DESBOIS (1851-1935) The Wave Gilded bronze Signed "J. Desbois Height 3 cm; Length: 13.5 cm; Depth: 13 cm Related work : - Jules Desbois, La Vague, 1896, bronze, L. 12.8 cm, Noyant-Villages, Musée Jules Desbois, inv. PR2006.1.1. Related literature : - Raymond Huard, Pierre Maillot, Jules Desbois, 1851-1935 : une célébration tragique de la vie, Paris, Le cherche-midi éd., 2000. After a difficult start to his career, influenced and supported by Auguste Rodin, whose practitioner he became from 1884 to 1914, Jules Desbois moved away from his academic training and developed a more modern and personal aesthetic language. Jules Desbois was a versatile artist, equally at home in monumental sculpture and the decorative arts. The artist continues to work on the female body, adapting it to the shapes of his objects.