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HUBERT YENCESSE (1900-1987)
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HUBERT YENCESSE (1900-1987)
Yvette Chauviré dancing, 1959
Bronze with brown patina
Signed with the founder's stamp 'Georges Rudier/Fondeur Paris'.
Titled, dated '1959' and dedicated 'À Gilberte Cournand'.
Bronze with black patina, signed and stamped with the 'Georges Rudier/Fondeur Paris' foundry mark | titled, dated '1959' and dedicated 'À Gilberte Cournand' on the base
40,2 cm - 15 7/8 in.
Provenance
Private collection, France
Related work
Hubert Yencesse (1900-1987), 'La danseuse étoile Yvette Chauviré', pencil on paper, signed and dated lower left, 26 x 24 cm, in. Sale, Crait+Müller, Hôtel Drouot, January 26, 2021, lot 226
Note
Yvette Chauviré was a French ballet dancer, étoile de l'Opéra de Paris and later maître de ballet, who was born on April 22, 1917 in Paris and died on October 19, 2016 in the same city. She is considered the greatest French ballerina of the 20th century. At the age of 10, she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School, where she studied under Boris Kniaseff and Victor Gsovsky until joining the corps de ballet of the Opéra Company, directed by Serge Lifar, in 1934. Her first role, however, dates back to 1929, when she danced a solo in "L'Éventail de Jeanne". Following this first role, Yvette Chauviré was promoted to quadrille, then, in January 1935, to coryphée, where she was promoted to petit sujet. She became a grand sujet in 1937, a première danseuse in 1938, then a danseuse étoile in December 1941, after the first performance of Ishtar, a ballet Serge Lifar choreographed for her. She was then aged 24. Yvette Chauviré danced all the great roles of the classical repertoiiiire, but her masterful interpretation of the title role in Giselle in 1949 is probably the most emblematic. Although she rose through the company hierarchy, she continued to work with her former teacher Boris Kniassef, creating ballets such as "La Légende du Bouleau" and "Piccolo". Between 1946 and 1947, she made infidelities to the Paris Opera and danced as a guest star for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Returning to the capital in 1948, she once again left the house that had seen her evolve, and performed at La Scala in Milan. A few years later, she was invited by the Royal Ballet to dance with Rudolf Nureyev, who had recently moved to France and was twenty years her junior. In 1956, she accompanied Serge Lifar on his farewell tour. She herself left the stage eighteen years later, at the age of 57, with her favourite role in "Giselle", and the solo in "La Mort du cygne". Nevertheless, she continued to pass on her knowledge to young Paris Opera stars such as Sylvie Guillem, Monique Loudières, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Élisabeth Maurin, Isabelle Guérin and Dominique Khalfouni. She also tried her hand at choreography, composing a "Giselle" that was danced again in 2016 by La Scala in Milan. She is considered the greatest French ballerina of the 20th century, and one of the few prima ballerinas to have been awarded the title of "prima ballerina assoluta".
Yvette Chauviré dancing, 1959
Bronze with brown patina
Signed with the founder's stamp 'Georges Rudier/Fondeur Paris'.
Titled, dated '1959' and dedicated 'À Gilberte Cournand'.
Bronze with black patina, signed and stamped with the 'Georges Rudier/Fondeur Paris' foundry mark | titled, dated '1959' and dedicated 'À Gilberte Cournand' on the base
40,2 cm - 15 7/8 in.
Provenance
Private collection, France
Related work
Hubert Yencesse (1900-1987), 'La danseuse étoile Yvette Chauviré', pencil on paper, signed and dated lower left, 26 x 24 cm, in. Sale, Crait+Müller, Hôtel Drouot, January 26, 2021, lot 226
Note
Yvette Chauviré was a French ballet dancer, étoile de l'Opéra de Paris and later maître de ballet, who was born on April 22, 1917 in Paris and died on October 19, 2016 in the same city. She is considered the greatest French ballerina of the 20th century. At the age of 10, she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School, where she studied under Boris Kniaseff and Victor Gsovsky until joining the corps de ballet of the Opéra Company, directed by Serge Lifar, in 1934. Her first role, however, dates back to 1929, when she danced a solo in "L'Éventail de Jeanne". Following this first role, Yvette Chauviré was promoted to quadrille, then, in January 1935, to coryphée, where she was promoted to petit sujet. She became a grand sujet in 1937, a première danseuse in 1938, then a danseuse étoile in December 1941, after the first performance of Ishtar, a ballet Serge Lifar choreographed for her. She was then aged 24. Yvette Chauviré danced all the great roles of the classical repertoiiiire, but her masterful interpretation of the title role in Giselle in 1949 is probably the most emblematic. Although she rose through the company hierarchy, she continued to work with her former teacher Boris Kniassef, creating ballets such as "La Légende du Bouleau" and "Piccolo". Between 1946 and 1947, she made infidelities to the Paris Opera and danced as a guest star for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Returning to the capital in 1948, she once again left the house that had seen her evolve, and performed at La Scala in Milan. A few years later, she was invited by the Royal Ballet to dance with Rudolf Nureyev, who had recently moved to France and was twenty years her junior. In 1956, she accompanied Serge Lifar on his farewell tour. She herself left the stage eighteen years later, at the age of 57, with her favourite role in "Giselle", and the solo in "La Mort du cygne". Nevertheless, she continued to pass on her knowledge to young Paris Opera stars such as Sylvie Guillem, Monique Loudières, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Élisabeth Maurin, Isabelle Guérin and Dominique Khalfouni. She also tried her hand at choreography, composing a "Giselle" that was danced again in 2016 by La Scala in Milan. She is considered the greatest French ballerina of the 20th century, and one of the few prima ballerinas to have been awarded the title of "prima ballerina assoluta".