[Rarebooks] FS: Famous French-Canadian Sculptor Laliberte

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Laliberte, Alfred.  "LEGENDES - COUTUMES - METIERS DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE,
BRONZES d'ALFRED LALIBERTE"

Montreal Librarie Beauchemin Limitee: 1934.

A survey of the work of this popular French-Canadian sculptor. Born in
Quebec in 1878, as a child Laliberte learned to carve wood with a
pocketknife on his family farm. At the age of 20 he completed a full-size
statue of the Canadian Prime Minister for the Provincial Exhibition in
Quebec City, and the Prime Minister was so enchanted that he encouraged
the young man to attend art classes at the Societe des Arts in Montreal.
Laliberte later also attended the Conseil des Arts et Metiers and then
traveled to Paris, to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for more study.

After Paris he returned to his native land and completed both large
commissions and smaller works. Although he had been heavily influenced by
Auguste Rodin, Laliberte managed to move on into his own unique style, and
it was in that style that he created perhaps his most famous sculptures.
This was a series of 200 or so small pieces completed between 1928 and
1932, based on the humble workers of his own home town in Quebec, which he
called " Legends, Metiers et Coutumes". These pieces show a wide variety
of men and women engaged in the crafts and work of a typical Quebec rural
community, and it was this work that earned him his title, "Sculptor of
the Rural Tradition".

This study is a well illustrated study of these rural pieces, illustrating
French-Canadian men and women and their everyday tasks.

Softcover. 9.5"x12", 7 pages of text plus 122 b/w plates covers with
moderate wear. [13133]  $150.00


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