A work with an innovative theme for its time, this bronze bears witness to Alfred Boucher's mastery and is an ode to physical effort. It represents a snapshot of the action. The group is balanced, ready to continue its race.
H. Parigot wrote about it: “It is one of the works that best shows the vigor, the execution and the bold audacity of the artist. There are three of them, who reach the goal, who aspire to it, who tend to it with all their muscles, with all their soul, by a fierce flight of the legs, an avid projection of the arms, and a muscular surge of the whole body, in an unheard-of movement; one a little behind, barely, and the hand high. The other two on the same line, without violence, nor confusion, without making a pack, with a furious and harmonious enthusiasm.”
This sculpture received the first class medal at the 1886 Salon and the gold medal at the 1889 Universal Exhibition.
Length 70 cm - Height 45 cm
Stamp of the Siot founder in Paris
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