Albert marque a doll

Albert Marque, a Sculptor, a Doll The quintessence of the doll and the child in a masterpiece of art; It is the doll made by the sculptor Albert Marque in 1916. To produce his doll, Albert Marque used the very contemporary expression and silhouette of a young girl of his time, as well as ancient statuary. He transcented a decorative art object by sublimating it conferring the statute of icon for antique dolls collectors. Actually this gorgeous doll is made during the periodcalled « Rebirth of the french doll »,soon after the first world war. It is due to the initiative, less of industrialists than of women, who managed to put their instincts of kindness and beauty into practice. Beauty had also his turn. The Parisian Lady initially bought the dolls which she entrusted to the workers to be dressedup but she realized that these dolls, almost all German had inexpressive faces,badly made bodies, similar to,effigies slashed in gaiac wood. The idea of using a noted sculptor to realize the face of a doll was the idea of a woman: Miss Huret, the first woman entering the French doll industry in 1850. Once the sculpture of a young girl was completed, Albert Marque turned it into a doll head by moulding it in order to reproduce several items. The choosen material for the head was ceramics, especially bisque, in the way of luxury dolls of time, the plaster matrix was intented for the realization of a restricted number of moulds. Each mould could give a maximum of 100 signed specimens among which about half could suffer damage. The doll head by Marque was produced with the Porcelain factory of Sèvres (France). The eyes came from a Parisian supplier as well as the wig made with mohair or human hair. A third of the models had brown eyes and two thirds blue eyes. The arms are in biscuit porcelain, eyes fixed in email. The numbering of the doll appear on the neckor on the sole of a foot.

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