Description

PUBLICATION
DETAILS: In upper margin: L’ILLUSTRATION. In lower margin under title: DU MUSEE DE LILLE.I lower margin at
lower left: Supplément d L’Illustration du 4 Décembre 1909.12 ½” w x 19” h. Mounted on gray sheet 17 ¼” w x 24 ¼” h. Color.

DESCRIPTION: This is a print of a wax bust in a museum in Lille, France, published as a supplement to the newspaper L’Illustration, December 4th, 1909. L’Illustration was a weekly French newspaper published in Paris rom 1843 to 1944. During the Second World War, L’Illustration became a voice for Marshall Petain’s collaborationism with the Germans, so was shut down in 1944 following the Liberation of Paris. The model is unknown.

BACKGROUND: “Often these busts are effigies, usually of a notable individual.… The properties of beeswax make it an excellent medium for preparing figures and models, either by modeling or by casting in molds. It can easily be cut and shaped at room temperature, melts at a low temperature, mixes with any coloring matter, takes surface tints well, and its texture and consistency may be modified by the addition of earthy matters and oils or fats … once it sets and hardens, its form is relatively resilient against ordinary temperature variations…. These properties have seen wax used for modelling since the Middle Ages.” (Source – Wikipedia)

CONDITION:
A few irregularities in margins. Print of bust in very good condition.

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