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Joy is an exception. The Flute Player ( 1900‐1905), whether described as “a little female faune", or
as "a siren.” It sometimes comes from the pleasures of dizziness: La Valse (1889‐1905 ) which, in its
asymmetry, marks the beginnings of an imbalance, maybe a disappearance and a fall.
CC’s work suggests that the most insistent pain circulates among cultures. So Sakountala (1886‐
88, changed into Vertumne and Pomone, will become then The Abandonment The first reference is
Hindu (legend of Kalidasa). It changes then into a Greco‐Roman reference: the nymph Pomone, the
divinity of fruits, fascinates the rural gods. The tricks of Vertumne (transformation into a woman, use
of the image, then the mythological narrative) refer to those of Rodin. The third slightly modified
Greek reference will become Niobide Injured by the murder of her children. The fourth reduces itself
to a universal state of the soul, represented as being outside myth: however, The Abandonment is at
the same time about the lover who neglects her, and her own renunciation, in despair.
The mature age. This explicit autobiographical allegory shows her intense suffering as an
abandoned woman. She speaks this time about her real‐life experience, outside of myth. The
sculpture has its own story, beyond that. In a first projection, the man resists the old woman who
draws him to her; in the second, he lets himself be led, and abandons his young, pleading mistress
(1893 ). Two movements in the emotional history of a lucid C.C.
Her last work, Niobide wounded (1907), shows a woman “dying of an arrow”, hand on chest.
Based on the position of Sakuntala, it has ‐in addition‐‐ long hair. This representation, following her
life too closely to be just a coincidence, is a part of her autobiographically motivated work. In this
sense, her freedom as an artist encounters the depths of her soul, by the act of creation, and does
not hesitate to express that despite her state of exhaustion.
3.3. Unexpected revelation through a “Chinese portrait” of CC. The following document is part of
an album entitled “An Album to Record Confessions: Chinese Portrait.. Feeelings Thoughts.”
“Your favorite virtue? I do not have any: they are all boring.
Your favorite qualities in man? To obey his wife
Your favorite qualities in woman? Will enrage her husband
Your favorite occupation? To do nothing
Your chief characteristic? Caprice and inconstancy
Your idea of happiness? To marry General Boulanger
Your idea of misery? To be the mother of many children
Your favorite color and flower ? The color which changes the most change and the
flower which is more unchanging
If not yourself, who you would you be? A cab horse in Paris
Your favorite prose authors? Mr. Pellerin author of the famous images.
Your favorite poet? Whoever does not write.
Your favorite painters and composers? Myself.
Your favorite heroes in real life? Pranzini or Tropmann (optional) (?)
Your favorite heroines in real life? Louise Michel
Your favorite heroes in fiction? Richard III
Your favorite heroines in fiction? Lady Macbeth
Your favorite food and drink? The cuisine of Merlatti 34 (love and fresh water)
Your favorite names? Abdonide (!) Joséphyr (!), Alpheus Boulang (Baker?)
Your pet aversion? Nurses, coachmen, and models.
What is your present state of mind? It is too difficult to say.
For what fault have you MOST toleration? I tolerate all my faults, but not those of
others.
Your favorite motto? One “Here it is” is better than two "You’ll get it’s"
Cam Claudel, May 16, 1888.