Lot n° 101
Estimation :
4000 - 5000
EUR
Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961) - Lot 101
Marcel GIMOND (1894-1961)
Stanislas Fumet (1896-1983), writer, circa 1949
Bronze head with brown patina.
Signed M. Gimond under the left ear.
Bears the mark of the foundryman E. Godard Fondr Paris on the back.
Resting on a wooden cubic base.
H. 26.5 cm, base H. 18 cm
BIBLIOGRAPHIE :
- George Waldemar, Gimond et l'esprit des formes, Mulhouse, Editions Braun & Cie, 1962, model listed under n°42;
- Marie-Claude Droux, Ecrits inédits de Charles Forot, in La Vie, la pensée et l'œuvre de Marcel Gimond, Master's thesis, University of Paris I, 1987.
Stanislas Fumet (1896-1983) was a French poet, publisher, journalist and art critic. His bust by Gimond was exhibited at the Paris Salon d'Automne in 1951 and 1961, at the Galliera Museum in 1957, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1962, and at the Palais des Arts et de la Culture in Brest in 1972.
The writer Charles Forot reports a conversation he had with the sculptor on January 22, 1949 about this bust in progress at réalisation : "I am also doing the bust of Stanislas Fumet. It's much more interesting. His long and slender head has character! Very spiritualized! ».
Through these three portraits, Marcel Gimond shows his attachment to figurative sculpture. He mainly creates busts of famous people, politicians and artists. He is particularly attached to the physical and psychological study of the models. The balance of the composition and the nature of the expression of these heads reflect his search for reality and life. The sculptor is inspired both by his own reflections on sculpture, his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and his travels where he discovered the great sculptors of Antiquity and the Renaissance.
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