Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953). - Lot 111

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Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953). - Lot 111
Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953). Portrait of Mallarmé in profile bust right, small gilt bronze plaque signed (6.8 x 5), [1923]. Modern case. From "Médailles artistiques A. Godard" 37 quai de l'Horloge, Paris. On reverse: "STEPHANE MALLARMÉ / 1842 - 1898 /-/ Effigie Frappée à l'Occasion / du / Vingt Cinquième Anniversaire / de sa Mort / sous les Auspices de la / Société Mallarmé /-/ Frappe limitée à deux cents exemplaires" - "Bronze, [poinçon], [n°] 73" on edge. Unlisted bronze print. The large bronze medallion was affixed by the Société to the wall of the house in Valvins at the inauguration on October 14, 1923, more than a month after the commemorative date of the death on September 9. A commemorative plaque was also cast. The Portraits de M. catalog (2013) lists only one brass print, of which it describes the ex. by Étienne Grosclaude (no. 51 with reprod. p. 98-99). Members of the fledgling Société Mallarmé, founded in June 1923, must have received it: Dr Bonniot, André Breton, Édouard Dujardin, André Fontainas, Paul Fort, Étienne Grosclaude [see 94], Henri de Régnier, Marguerite Moreno, Jules Supervielle, Paul Valéry...
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