JUAN CLARÁ AYATS
Spanish, 1878 - 1958
A GIRL SEATED ON A STOOL TYING HER SHOE
signed "Juan Clara" and stamped A.G. Paris (on the stool )
bronze figure
6-3/8 x 3 x 4 inches (16 X 7.5 X 10 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, France
Gilded bronze sculpture of Art Nouveau style, depicting a little girl sitting on a sidewalk tying her shoe.
The plasticity that Juan Clará achieves with the bronze when shaping this beautiful little sculpture is wonderful. We notice the effort that the little girl is making to put on her shoe, her gestures and attitudes which moves us and attracts us towards her.
Juan Clará Ayats. Olot (Gerona), 6.XII.1875 - Paris (France), II.1958. Sculptor
Student of José Berga at the Olot School of Fine Arts, developed his training in France, first at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, in 1896, and from 1901 in Paris. At this stage he lived with his younger brother, José Clará...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures