François POMPON

First edition of this catalogue gathering animal drawings, paintings and sculptures exhibited at the Edgar Brandt gallery in Paris from November 25 to December 25, 1930.
Three stains on the first cover.
Catalogue illustrated with 27 photographs.
Among the works presented: sculptures by François Pompon, Raymond Bigot, Georges Artemoff, Marguerite de Bayser Gratry, Simone Boutarel, drawings by Paul Jouve, Pierre Colin, André Margat, Camille Roche...
Rare.

Exceptional set of archives from the Rudier foundry: a manuscript register of castings (45 leaves and 8 loose leaves) and a set of 11 original silver print photographs. Housed in a box covered with a decorative paper. Register bound in a cloth, first cover detached; consolidated with a re-used cover from an insurance company sheet. Numerous tears on the covers, tears on a few pages not affecting the text, a few pages loose.
Extremely rare documents, to our knowledge unique set of archives to have survived the destruction of the molds and records of the Rudier foundry in 1952. The only other archives known to date only concern castings commissioned by the Rodin...

Original photograph, vintage silver print, laminated on cardboard made by Bernes, Marouteau & Cie and representative François Pompon slightly in front.
Photo studio stamp on the back of the cardboard.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by François Pompon, at the foot of his portrait, to his friends Deshairs.

Postcard autograph signed by François Pompon addressed to his friends Deshairs , written on the back of a photographic postcard representing the monument to the soldiers of Cuy-Saint-Fiacre 1914-1918 he sculpted.
Nice copy.