17/06/2026
« THE SAP » - Raoul Larche, c. 1900
Spring, as Raoul Larche imagined it, doesn’t arrive gently. It takes hold of the body - arms thrown open to the sky, branches coiling around bare flesh, buds breaking at every turn.
This marble work is one of his most personal works: the face is that of Georgette Lecoeur, his wife, who appears throughout his allegorical figures as a quiet constant.
First shown at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1893, the work earned Larche a first-class medal and never left the center of his practice.
A photograph taken in Henri Godet’s studio around 1900, now at the Musée d’Orsay, shows it standing among the works he held closest.
Dimensions: 98 cm
Material: White Carrara marble
Year: c. 1900
Available upon inquiry at Artimo Fine Art, Brussels.