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The Letourneur workshop on sale at Drouot
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- 1. René Letourneur (1898-1990)
Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes, 1926
Plaster - 79.5 x 43 x 27 cm
Crait+Müller sale, 4 April 2025
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3/4/25 - Art market - Paris - The Crait+Muller auction house, which specialises in sculpture, particularly 20th-century sculpture, with the Galerie Malaquais as expert, is offering a very interesting collection from the Letourneur studio, by two artists: René Letourneur and his son Jean. Whatever the real qualities of the latter, he falls outside our chronological scope. On the other hand, his father René, born in 1898 and active almost until his death in 1990, is very much part of our period since he produced important Art Deco sculptures, a style he practised for a long time…