Jane POUPELET abandons sculpture for toys and dolls.
Interesting letter from the French sculptress acting for the French artistic toy office and for the exhibition organized by it on the Champs-Élysées.
650€
Interesting letter from the French sculptress acting for the French artistic toy office and for the exhibition organized by it on the Champs-Élysées.
650€
Jane POUPELET (1874.1932)
Mimeographed letter signed by Jeanne Poupelet.
One page, quarto. Undated
Interesting letter from the French sculptress acting for the French artistic toy office and for the exhibition organized by it on the Champs-Élysées.
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FRENCH ARTISTIC TOY OFFICE
14 rue de la Grande Chaumière
The French artistic toy bureau, founded on March 16, 1905, under the honorary presidency of Mrs. Van Saanan Algi and Miss Enid Yandell, had the following aim:
1° To give artists in the future a means of increasing their material resources.
2° To create toys imbued with French artistic taste that would compete with foreign imports.
3° To contribute, through the choice of subjects and the aesthetic and spiritual form of the toy, to the education of the child.
The office announces that its exhibition will open on May 25th at the Champs-Élysées under the patronage of Miss Valentine Thomson, director of VIE FÉMININE.
Conditions for participating in the exhibition:
1° Exhibitors must register as soon as possible, 14 rue de la Grande Chaumière, on Mondays and Thursdays from 2pm to 3pm.
2° The toy designs must be submitted no later than Thursday, May 22nd in the afternoon to the French artistic toy office.
From Miss Poupelet.
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A leading figure in early 20th-century sculpture, Jane Poupelet stood alongside other women artists, particularly Camille Claudel, whom she resembled in her fierce independence and strength of character. The first woman admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs in Bordeaux, she met the sculptor Lucien Schnegg in 1900 and joined the "Schnegg circle," of which she was the only woman. She frequented the circles around Bourdelle and Rodin, and also associated with American artists and Anglo-Saxon feminist groups.
During the Great War, Jane Poupelet abandoned her art and devoted herself to creating dolls and painted wooden toys, which she sold to benefit war victims. From 1918, she modeled masks for the mutilated, the "broken faces" of the conflict, working for the American Red Cross alongside Anna Ladd. Her dedication earned her the Legion of Honour in 1928.