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CHARLES MALFRAY (1887-1940)

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CHARLES MALFRAY (1887-1940)
Le Silence ou La Boule
Bronze with brown patina
Signed with the monogram and numbered "2/8" with the foundry mark "M. Hohwiller/
Fondeur/Paris"
Bronze with brown patina, signed with the artist's monogram and numbered "2/8" with the foundry mark "M. Hohwiller/Fondeur/Paris" 40,5 cm - 16 in.
PROVENANCE Private collection, France (by descent)
RELATED WORKS Charles Malfray, Le Silence, dit La Boule, 1916-1918, bronze, no. 5/8, lost-wax casting
Attilio Valsuani, 9.8 cm, reproduced in color in Charles Malfray, 1887-1940, sculpteur, cat.
expo., Paris: Galerie Malaquais, 5 April-30 June 2007, Galerie Malaquais, Paris: 2007, cat. n°5
Charles Malfray, Le Silence (sans roc), original plaster, 40 cm, described in sale, OEuvre sculpté de Charles Malfray, 1887-1940, Me Oury,
Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22 December 1958, n°26 "No more personalities, but two lines of trenches over hundreds of kilometres and silence and solitude when the shells do not fall and hell when the shells do fall"
Charles Malfray, handwritten letter on L'Effroi, quoted in cat. expo, Paris, Galerie Malaquais,
Charles Malfray 1887-1940, sculptor, 2007