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Decorative Arts of the 20th century
Proof in bronze with shaded brown patina on a green background from the original 1905 model.
2nd version, heel of the left foot touching the terrace.
Signed A. Landowski on the back, on the terrace.
Cast by the artist circa 1905/1910
Height: 37 cm
Length: 13 cm - Depth: 16 cm
This sculpture is based on scenes observed during the artist's trip to Tunisia.
Biblio: Identical model listed in the book “Landowski” by B. Foucart, M. Lefrançois and G. Caillet, page 76
Biography:
Student at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where his teacher was Barrias, who imparted to him a sense of the monumental.
Prix de Rome in 1900 for “David Combattant”.
1901: leaves for Rome and moves to the Villa Médicis.
1903: Trip to Tunisia with his friend Henri Bouchard. He stocked up on notes and sketchbooks, which he would use throughout his life.
From 1933 to 1937, he headed the Académie de France in Rome, before being appointed Director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
He received commissions from all over the world:
Paris commissioned the image of its patron saint, Ste Geneviève, who takes her place at the bedside of Notre-Dame, Rio de Janeiro and its Corcovado Christ, China and Sun Yat-Sen's mausoleum, England, Switzerland .....
He died in his Boulogne Billancourt home on March 31, 1961, aged 85.
