0t The Paul Nocquet Memorial Exhibition anxa 88-B 2367 AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH NEW YORK Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/catalogueofmemorOOamer CATALOGUE OF THE Memorial Exhibiti OF THE WORKS OF PAUL NOCOUET ON EXHIBITION April 28th to May 6th, 1906 T/ic /I ni eric an Art Association, Manager NEir roRK Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York HONORARY COMMITTEE President Roosevelt. Monsieur J. J. Jusserand, French Amhassa- dor. Bauon MoxcHKru, Belgian Minister. PiKKUK AI Belgian Cofisnl. SiK Casi'ak Pi kdox ('i.aukk. Gkokck I)k Fokkst HursH. l'\ S. ("hi kch. KoiiKur \\ . 1)k Pokkst. Frank 1)a.mu()s(h. AuGi'STi s St. (iaudkns. Fhan/ Kxeisel. Jek am beaux. Emerson McMiuuin. A i.riioxsK MrcHA. J. HaUSKX linOADES. auguste kodin. Isaac \. Sei-igman. 'I'n KODOKE 15. Stauu. Arthur Whiting. Mada:me Sarah Bernhardt. Mks. John W. Simpson. MANAGEMENT OF THE PAUL NOCQUET MEMORIAL EXHIBITION (iiJTZox HoiuM.r.M, Clut'iniKin KXKcrrivK coMMrrrKK (ttjtzox Bokcjlfm I loM i:i{ I).\v Kx I'oirr KoHKur Davis PiKKKK Mali Ar(;rs'n s Post ISAA( N. Ski,1(;.max Daxiki, ( 11 Ks ri:u 1''iikx( ii V.\v\. M. \V\KnrK(; A. Nii.sKX Lai unik, Sccrcfar// COMMrriKK ON KXIIIHITION lo.MKK Dw KX i'()i{ T, ( 'luiirnidfi (iirZOX HoiUM-FM Lkox Damo Miss Isahkllk Fkasku Daniel C. Fkex( h CiiAKLEs Haa(; ClI AK LES H AW'I'HOKXE n. W. Laxiku J. NiLSKx Lai kvik .Ike Leempoels Alfkei) Seligmax Waltek Shiklaw Fredekic AL N'ekmouckex COMMITTEE REPRESENTING SCULPTORS Daniel Chester French, Chairman Herbert Adams H. A. MacNeil Karl Bitter Atillio Piccirilli Augustus St. Gaudens A. P. Proctor COMMITTEE REPRESEX i IN(i AERO CLUB IIo.MKK \V. IIki)c;k, C'hairnian. Corti>anj)t F. Bisnoi'. C. M. Manlkv Carl Dienstbach Augt'stus Post William J. IIammku Lko Stevens A. M. TI KKitixG l)i{. »Jri,i.\x P. Thomas COCNT 1)L LA NaIIA CATAL()(;i IN(i COALMITTEE J. NiLSEX Lai kvik, Chairman MUS. X. iVl'l'LKTON rOK Loi (JHKEI) GuT/OX lioUGLUM J K K L K KM I'O K I,S Lkox Daro F. fl. .Mathkk, Ju. Chaulks 1L 1)a\is Miss M. W. Moxtgomery Ali'hoxsk MrcHA PREFATORY NOTE The death of Paul Nocquet, the Belgian sculptor and aeronaut, from exhaustion in the marshes of Long Island, on April 4tli last, re- moves a most original and forceful personality. As a sculptor he leaves hehind liim, at tlie age of twenty-nine, a hody of work tliat would do credit to a man twice his years, and as a I'ear- less investigator of the science of aerostation, one of the great ])r()hlenis engrossing tlie hest minds of to-chiy, he must forever i-emain an in- spiring exam])le. Paul Noc(juet was boi'n in Hi-ussels in llie year 1877, of Frencli ])arents. At the age of fourteen he began to study ])ainting in the ]^rus- sels Art School under Jean Portaels. After two years in that school he went to xVntwerp, where he studied for some time, returning again to tlie Brussels Art School. Following a dispute with his teaclier he left his studio and entered the classes for scul])ture, where, ai'ter three months' study, he won a prize, which encouraged him to continue sculpture. It was here that he met the great Jet' Jiambeaux, who, on seeing some of his work, invited him to become his pupil, an offer which he gladly accepted. In the year 1900, at the age of twenty-three, he entered the annual sculpture competition in Belgium and won the " Prix Godecharle," Scholarship of Rome, which enabled him to con- tinue his studies abroad. In place of going to Rome, however, as was the condition imposed upon the winner of the prize, he obtained per- mission to go to Paris, where he studied sculp- ture with Mercie and painting with Gerome. He began to exhibit in the Salon du Champ de Mars " at once, and two years later was elected " Associe," which enabled him to exhibit exempt from jury. He enjoyed the friendship of the foremost men of his art. He knew Meu- nier, worked with Jef Lambeaux and listened close to the whispering of the muses of Rodin. He came to America in August of 1903, and immediately took out his first papers of Ameri- can citizenship. In his profession of sculptor he became a trained craftsman, who knew his limitations as he believed in his power. His only real heartache was one that must inevitably bless every man of genius — the limitations of every form of human expression and chiefly that of his own medium; hence the despair that labors in much of his work. He was like every great man in that he could and did work with tremen- dous energy, which gave a strength and virility to his productions that grip one's interest. Two great forces are made manifest in his work — the moral and material contention in life. His group entitled the ^Idultercr ilhistrates most strongly his great reverence for the under- lying moral force in life, as the group called Effort shows how deeph^ he was impressed with the merely physical, the material force, ^^'hich constitutes man's most primitive expression of himself. His loss to all of us and to those who perhaps a])])rove(l him least is very great. AVe need in America the stimuhis of his ])oint of view. His productions to date are ])ower('uL innnci- ous and varied; they show a wide symj)athy that made us all heheve in a great Cnture. while many of his works are ])iM/ed hy those who know hest as masterpieces of th( ii* kind. His interest in hallooning dated IVoiii a \ cry early age and grew keener w 'lih the years. He had ah-eady won a considerable reputation abroad as a danntless and \ei-y able aei-oiiaut, \\h()se many successful flights aroused the admiration of such a veteran as C'a])az/a, who was one of his dearest and most intimate friends, and in whose balloon he went to his untimely death. The ascension he made from Xew York City on April 3d, successfully landing on one of the outermost sandbars lying off Long Island, is now considered by experts as being in many re- spects one of the most remarkable flights ever taken by a balloonist. By it he proved con- clusively his theories of the local winds and air currents, and has contributed in no small degree towards the actual knowledge of aerostation. B.-L. New York, April 24, 1906. Yaxcning Woniiin LIST OF SCULPTURES T.IST OF SCULPTURES 1 — Presidential Vacation Presented to President Roosevelt (in 1905). 2 — Yawning' Girl J*;itined ])laster — Paris Salon. 3 — Master Dich'fi Lotceii^ard Portrait — l)r()nze. ^—Effort (ij-onj) — l)ronzt>. 5— Mr. Loel) Portrait — niarl)le. (S—The Soldier of Marathon Bronze — Paris Salon. 7 — American Football Group — bronze. Presented to Columbia Uni- versity Club by I. N. Seligman, Esq. 8 — Man with Horn 9— The Cursed 10— Hate Bronze vase — Paris Salon. Bronze — Paris Salon. Bronze — Paris Salon 11 — Woman with Sickle 12 — Bacchus Bronze — Paris Salon. Bronze — Paris Salon, 13 — The Cursed Statue — Paris Salon 14 — Man Who Weeps Patined plaster. 15 — Endless Grief Patined plaster. 1 6 — Deadl// Stru ggle PatiiK'd ])laster. 17— Men Who PuU Patined plaster. 18 — Dancing- (wirl Owned hv Hcnjaniin Altnian, Ksi\. 10— il//'.v. Fniiihlid Harris Portj'ait patined plaster. 20 — Hercules and Anta us (iroiip pat ined plaster. 21— Kn^Hsh airl Bust — })atine(l plasti'r. 22 — In Minor Strain Patined plaster. 23 — Caryatid Figure — wax. 24 — Suicide Figure — patined plaster. 25 — Decorative Foimtain Plaster. 26 — Slavery Patined plaster — Paris Salon. 27 — Bruins Decorative bust. 28— — Strength Decorative vase^ — Paris Salon. 2^—Thor Statue — plaster. 30 — Monsieur C. Laurent Portrait — bust. 31 — Wounded Man Statue — patincd plaster. (Silver Medal — St. Louis World's Fair.) 32 — Ah'ar the Abyss l*atiiied plaster — I'aris Salon. 33 — ^iffiiction Statuette- ])atiiu'(l j)la>t(.r. Paris Salon. i^^—Ccn i a u r S t ru i:;^lln^ (iroup Paris Salon. 35 — K(i u cslria n Fi^ h t (irou]) Paris Salon. 3() — (wdslon dc Ch rlaclw Port I'ait — terra eotta. 37 — Fri^h Icti cd lf\) m a n Bust — terra cotta. 38 — Decorative Bas-relief Plaster. 39 — Vanity Patined plaster — Paris Salon. 40^ — Desolation Patined plaster — Paris Salon. 41 — Men Working Group — patined plaster — Paris Salon. 42 — Master Florian Portrait — terra cotta. 43 — Sketch of a Fountain Plaster. 44 — Force Patined plaster — Paris Salon. 45— — The Two Weepers Patined plaster — Paris Salon. 46 — Decorative Candlestick Patiric'd plaster — Paris Salon. 47 — Mademoiselle Beatrice X, Portrait — patincd plaster — Paris Salon. 48 — Despair Patincd plaster — Paris Salon. 49 — The Man and His Chimera Patined plaster — l*aris Salon. 50 — Justice l*atiiie(l plaster- — Paris Salon. 51 — xinaUn'ina Patincd plaster- — Paris Salon. 52 — Won uded l*atincd plaster. yd— Effort Sketch — terra cotta. 54 — Model for Paul Jones Memorial Door Received third prize in competition. 55 — Dutch Knight Bust — terra cotta. LAST WORK, FOUND UNFINISHED 56 — Guilty W oman 57 — Fawn and Nymph * LIST OF l)UA\VI\(iS LIST OF DRAWINGS 5S—The Guilty Woman Pencil drawino' — front and roar views. od—Thc IloUda// Water color design — advert isiiio- poster. GO — Blue Pencil Draici}!^- of Full Figure (U — Skefehes for Paul Jones Memorial Door (A) Lunette — snialler studies of same on hack. (/y) Male figure for caryatid. {K) Male figure for caryatid. (J) Sketcli for door and details of same. (A') Sketch for figure of l*aul Joiu^. (Q) Sketches of Paul Jones for door. {li) Sketches of Paul Jones for door. (S) Sketches of Paul Jones for door. (T) Sketches of Paul Jones for door. (U) Sketch for lunette. (IP) Study for figure of Paul Jones. (X) Study for bronze doors. 62 — Drawing for Bas-relief In Minor Strain " 63 — Drawing for Bas-relief In Minor Strain 64 — Sketch for Proposed Equestrian Statue 65 — Sketch of Various Figures m—Sketch of Figure 67 — Pencil Drawing of Man in Pain 6S— Study for Effort " 69 — Study of Male Figure 10— Study for " Effort " n^Study for Men Who Pull " 72 — Study for Female Figure 7^— Study for Female and Male Figures 74 — Water Color DeHiij;}i for ]]^(dl- paper 75 — Water Color Design for W(dl-paper 70 — Water Color I)esi<^ii for ]\^ all- pa per 77 — Si lid// of TlCo Male Fi;i^ iires on lioth Sides 78 — Si lid// of Mall' Fi <^ iires 7^—Sliid// for '* Football " HO—Sfiid// for Mother and Child 81 — Stud// for M(de Figure H2—Ned Chaih' Stud// f(,r Cr'/V/'.v Head 83 — Stud// for (\ir//atid 84 — Study of Male Figures 85 — Study of Male Figure 86 — Study of Male Figures 87 — Study for Suicide 88 — Study for Male Figure Dancing Girl Stiul/i for Hds-rdicf : " /// Minor Sfrti'iN. SI 11(1 II for liiis-nlii f : //. M'mor Stru'ni.