WALCH CHARLES
(1898-1948) Nationality: French Activity: Painter and engraver and sculptor Average price : Between $ 4,000 and 9,000 Born in Thann, Alsace, Walch became interested in art during his early youth and came in 1918 to Paris where he studied painting at the school of Decorative Arts and befriended Franois Desnoyer.
He then attended courses at the school of Beaux-Arts in Paris and became a professor specialised in drawing in 1923.
He exhibited his works regularly at the Salon des Indpendants, des Tuileries and dAutomne from 1925 and worked under the guidance of Bonnard and Marquet in 1934.
Walch was awarded a gold medal at the 1937 International Exhibition and was under contract with the Louis Carr gallery in 1941. He also befriended Georges Rouault and was awarded the Legion dHonneur distinction shortly before his death in 1948.
Walch painted joyful works marking his love of life. The Museum of Modern Art in Paris organised a retrospective exhibition of his works, paintings, drawings, gouaches and sculptures, from November 1949 until February 1950.
Main results for works by Walch:
The Red House, oil on canvas, 81 x 64.5 cm: $ 7,679, June 27th 1997, Boisgirard group, Drouot-Paris
Fishing in a River, oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm: $ 10,536, March 9th 1998, Cornette de St Cyr group, Drouot-Paris
The Crows, oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm: $ 6,954, June 14th 1998, Boisgirard group, Drouot-Paris
Woman at a window, oil on canvas, 45 x 60 cm: $ 3,571, June 14th 1998, Loiseau group, St Germain en Laye, France.
Nude before the sea, oil on paper, 1926, 50 x 61 cm: $ 5,000, June 14th 1998, Loiseau group,
St Germain en Laye, France@@
WALDBERG ISABELLE
(Born in 1917) Nationality: Swiss Activity: Sculptor
The daughter of a couple of farmers in Oberstammsheim, Isabelle Waldberg settled in 1936 in Paris where she became a much interesting sculptor after working in the studio of Hans Meyer in Zurich and studying art in Florence.
She studied in Paris with Gimond, Wlerick and Malfray and got interested in African and Indian art while frequenting avant-garde circles where she notably met Alberto Giacometti and Jan Arp.
After a stay in New York between 1941 and 1946 during which she met Breton, Duchamp and Max Ernst, she joined the Surrealist group and showed her works made of flexible wood sticks in the Art of This Century exhibition held at the Peggy Guggenheim museum.
She notably witnessed the birth of the new American art movement under the impulse of Gorky, Motherwell and Pollock and found her inspiration in Indian and Eskimo art.
Back in Paris she took part in the International Surrealist exhibition of 1947 and in the Surrealist exhibition of Sarrebruck in 1952.
She then exhibited her works in Bern in 1955 and in Amsterdam and Stockholm in 1961.
Isabelle Waldberg also took part in many exhibitions in Paris from 1949 and also in Koln, Zurich, Lausanne, Milan, Florence, Copenhagen and Munich as well as in Japan.
In the 1950s she created iron, plaster and bronze sculptures in an attempt to express the fullness and amplitude of forms and volumes with much modernity. She developed a Surrealistic and non-figurative personal style and also taught at the school of Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1973.
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