[Rarebooks] FS: Alfred Laliberte Quebec French-Canadian Sculpture 1934

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“Legendes - Coutumes - Metiers de la Nouvelle France, Bronzes d'Alfred 
Laliberte”

By Alfred Laliberte.
Published in Montreal by Librarie Beauchemin Limitee in 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 bronzes 
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 black & white plates. The 
covers have some wear and soil (please see the photos, above and below). 
The book itself has some spotting on the endpapers and some minor soil, 
but otherwise is clean and nice, with a tight binding. $60-

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