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THBRare and Fine Joseph Charles de Blezer Bronze Bust
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveSep 26, 2024
Featuring furniture, decorative arts, and fine art, including an impressive Victorian English Silver Charles Hancock Presentation Urn among other silver; portraiture including an important Allan Ramsay portrait; other artworks by Rubens Santoro, Daniel Gardner, Raymond Thibesart, and others; a rare Joseph Charles de Blezer bronze bust of a free man; furniture including a fine Pietra Dura Inlaid Marble Top Table with Christie's Provenance; decorative pieces including a Sevres style gilt bronze mounted cobalt porcelain floor urn, a pair of Newton’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes; and much more Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
(born Ghent, active Paris/New York, circa 1868-1882)
Bust of Free Man, signed on proper left edge of base "Blezer", patinated bronze, 23-1/2 x 21 x 14 in. (56.69 x 53.34 cm.)
Provenance: Private Collection
Note: Born into a noble family in Ghent, Belgium, Joseph Charles de Blezer traveled to Paris to pursue a career in sculpture and the decorative arts. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Baptiste Clesinger and exhibited regularly at the official salon from 1863 to 1881. De Blezer's colossal plaster bust of the great American abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859) was exhibited in the Salon of 1870. A bronze cast of this work was purchased in Paris in 1976 by a trustee of Oberlin College. It was a gift to the college, where it remains on view to this day. This bust of a handsome man, possibly Mulatto, was, perhaps, inspired by the abolitionist movement in the United States and in France in the mid-Nineteenth Century. In it, de Blezer used a compositional device similar to the one used in his portrait of John Brown; however, instead of a rope wrapped around the collar of the shirt, there is a scarf loosely draped around the unbuttoned collar. The young man stares directly at the viewer, with a look of confidence. He appears to be a man of quiet elegance and is depicted by de Blezer in a manner that recalls the work of the Renaissance sculptor Alessandro Vittoria (Trent 1525-1628 Venice)
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Private Collection
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- Condition
golden to green-brown patina, some wear to patina
