Seated Youth (Le Realisateur)
The bronze is a reduced version of the figure commissioned for a tomb of the philanthropist and industrialist Emil Mayrisch in the park of the Château de Colpach in Luxembourg.
Artwork Details
- Title: Seated Youth (Le Realisateur)
- Artist: Charles-Albert Despiau (French, Mont-de-Marsan 1874–1946 Paris)
- Date: executed ca. 1930
- Culture: French
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: 29 3/8 × 16 1/8 in. (74.6 × 41 cm)
- Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
- Credit Line: Purchase, Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1951; from The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
- Object Number: 53.140.7
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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