MAX BLONDAT (1872-1925 )L'Équilibre, also known as Bébé boule, a reduction of the motif conceived in [1925] Sculpture. Proof in patinated terra cotta. The base in wood. Old edition. A finger glued back. Signed Max BLONDAT on the ball. Height including base : 34 cmHeight of the subject alone : 29 cmHistory : The sculpture L'Équilibre was initially created by Max Blondat for the fountain of the garden of the Hôtel du Collectionneur by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann during the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes of 1925 in Paris . Bibliography : - Pierre Patout - L'architecture officielle et les pavillons - Éditions Charles Moreau, Paris, 1925 . Bibliography : - Pierre Patout - L'architecture officielle et les pavillons - Éditions Charles Moreau, Paris , 1925. The original model made for the 1925 Exhibition reproduced in situ on plate 19. - Léandre Vaillat - Les sculptures de Max Blondat - Catalogue of the exhibition at the Musée Galliera, Paris, 1926, éditions du Musée Galliera, Paris, 1926 . An identical model, in another format and another material, presented under number 7 of the catalogue. - Bruno Foucart and Alice Fleury - Les sculptures de Max Blondat (1872-1925) du Modern Style à l'Art déco - Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Musée départemental de l'Oise in 1979, éditions du Musée départemental de l'Oise, Beauvais, 1979. An identical model, in another format and another material, presented under number 43bis of the catalogue.