Lot n° 121
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 600EUR
Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) - Lot 121
Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992)
Young Moorish girl in a Sarouel, 1932
Workshop plaster.
Unsigned.
65 x 23 x 13 cm
Inv. MD. S-135-00b
PROVENANCE :
- Artist's studio;
- By descent.
BIBLIOGRAPHIE : Sculpture and drawings from the first half of the 20th century, Collection du musée national des Beaux-Arts d'Alger, exhibition catalogue, Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick (4 October-14 December 2003), Mont-de-Marsan Museums, Musée Despiau-Wlérick, 2003, p. 45, repr. (bronze print no. 1).
In the catalogue of the exhibition devoted to the collection of the Musée d'Alger, published in 2003, Azzedine Antri notes about the Young Moorish Woman at sarouel : it is "one of the artist's most important works produced during his stay in Algeria. Marcel Damboise donated print no. 1, cast by Valsuani, to the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts in 1934 (Inv.IG1626).
After a brief stay at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, Marcel Damboise completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and settled in Paris, at La Ruche, in 1926, with his friend the sculptor Louis Dideron. In 1928, he married Yvette Dorignac, daughter of the painter Georges Dorignac. He rubbed shoulders with the painter's entourage, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and met Paul Cornet, Charles Despiau, Aristide Maillol and Charles Malfray who became his spiritual masters. During his stay at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria, between 1932 and 1935, he executed numerous commissions, including the Monument du Fondouk, which were noticed by Albert Camus with whom he became friends. During the war, in France, he made a large female figure for the city of Bordeaux and a high relief of Saint Marcel for the church of Vitry-sur-Seine. He stayed again in Algeria from 1948 to 1954 and, on his return to Paris, was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts and became a founding member of the Groupe des Neuf.
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