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Madame Noblet
Medardo Rosso Italian
Not on view
Dr. Louis Sylvain Noblet and his wife, Anne Loustau-Noblet, collected Rosso’s sculpture. In keeping with the artist’s practice of reworking earlier material at a later date, this plaster is the third version. Here, Rosso left visible fingerprints and wide spatula marks on the surface, a decision that glorifies the process of working with raw material and wresting a new representation from an unformed whole. The proper left side of the sitter’s face catches the light strongly, while the other side falls deeply into shadow, emphasizing the unique viewpoint from which Rosso intended the sculpture to be seen.
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