Seated Youth (Le Realisateur)

executed ca. 1930
Not on view
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

Object Information
  • 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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