Raymond Sudre, Caritat (1913)

RAYMOND SUDRE (Perpignan 1870 - Paris 1962)
Caritat
1913
Plaster covered with wax
55 x 44 x 23 cm Signed: Sudre

Sudre, a sculptor from Perpignan, received the commission for this moving group with a standing Catalan woman holding an infant in her right arm and clasping a girl to her side while a bearded old man sitting to her right kisses thehem of her dress, titled "Caritat" around 1910, to pay homage to the benefactors of the new hospital in Perpignan. The marble (H. 550 - W. 700 - D. 600) is now in a garden on the Salses road to Perpignan. At the 1913 Salon, Sudre exhibited another marble version of the group, now lost, surely a reduction of the work in Perpignan. This plaster version covered with wax must be linked to a project of casting the group in bronze; but no bronze version is known to date.