Lot n° 142
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Watercolours - Sculptures - Fine Arts
FABRE... - Lot 142 - Briscadieu
Watercolours - Sculptures - Fine Arts
FABRE (Abel) - HAUTES-PYRÉNÉES - ARIÈGE - HAUTE-GARONNE - AUDE - LANDES
Exceptional set of watercolors, sketches, drawings and sculptures by the painter Abel Fabre (1846-1922), who painted passionately the Pyrenees, Aquitaine and Occitania regions in the years 1910-1920. We find among others views of the Pyrenean chain (Héas, Superbagnères, Port de Vénasques, path of the port of Viella in Spain, Lac Bleu, the Gaillon from the Brèche d'Allans, Brèche d'Allans from the Port de Pinéve, the Astasous from the Spanish side, the Vignemale chain, Pic Lary and Les Parets, Brèche de Rolland, bridge of Lassoula in Caillauas, Gous blanc, Lourtiga....) of villages in Ariège (Ignaux, Sentein...), Haute-Garonne (numerous views of Bachos at the foot of the Pyrenees, a favourite site of the artist, Signac, Guran...), Hautes-Pyrénées (Puntous, Héas, ...), Aude (Conques, Villalier) and Landes (numerous views of Contis les Bains)
We propose a notebook of 52 watercolors and sketches (format in-8 oblong), 185 watercolors, drawings and sketches extracted from notebooks of drawings, 2 photographs of the artist, 7 frames under glasses containing several watercolors, a framed photograph, 4 frames containing a watercolor for the ones and a charcoal for the other one (the watercolors in certain frames present small punctures), and a glass plate.
Also included is a large white marble medallion in relief (35 cm in diameter) depicting a young girl "Kéké - 1892", 9 ceramic sculptures dated circa 1910 (saleswoman with basket, mother and child, the kiss of the children, seated young girl (accidents), the Emperor in foot (restored accident), bust of Francis Planté, Breton woman with pipe (accidents)).
Abel Fabre, born in 1846 in Blagnac, was a pupil of the Falguière workshop at the Toulouse School of Fine Arts, and then became a professor of the sculpture workshop at the same school in 1899. He was ranked first in the competition for the Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture. In 1886, he obtained a mention at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris (the model is in the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse). He executed many gothic statues for the cathedral of Rouen, but was also the author of many monuments in Toulouse (pediment of the Capitole, facade of the Augustins museum (1887), facade of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, monument to the dead of Blagnac, statue of St Nicolas with 3 small children which rises in the church of the same name, medallion which decorates the mausoleum Labeda in the cemetery of Terre-Cabade) He was a professor at the School of Fine Arts and Industrial Sciences for over 30 years.
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