HISTORY

In 1928, Max LE VERRIER carved his famous « CLARTE », the woman with a bowl, a 1930’s candle stand, taking back the idea of an antique goddess of light, symbolizing that time with a boyish hairstyle but also by the sedateness of her figure.

He sculpted CLARTE in his little atelier from a live model : in fact he needed 3 different models : one for the head, another one for the chest and one for the legs. For this last part he asked a black American woman playing in JOSEPHINE BAKER’s ballets to pose.

This item was displayed in the exhibition « LUMIERES » -Lights- at the GEORGES POMPIDOU center from May to August 1985 but also in 1987 the exhibition « MADE IN FRANCE » at HARROD’S in London and in
the exhibition « DE MAIN DE MAITRE » at the Grand Palais in Paris. It was also exhibited in the MARTINEZ hotel in Cannes in 2000.

Today, two of them can be admired at the LUTETIA hotel, in Paris.

LUMINA
BY
Max LE VERRIER

Clarté