Lot n° 122
Estimation :
1500 - 2000
EUR
Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) - Lot 122
Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992)
Torso of a woman holding her breasts, 1939-1941
Posthumous terracotta print.
Unsigned.
33 x 8.2 x 8.2 cm.
BIBLIOGRAPHIE : Jean-Baptiste Auffret, Danielle Damboise, Ève Turbat, ibid.
In 1941, La Femme se tenir les seins was exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries and at the Louis Carré gallery (Paris); in 1948, at the Colline gallery (Oran), where Damboise had a private exhibition. This model, which was a great success, was published in bronze. But Damboise also carved a marble of his figure and diffused it through fragmentary terracotta proofs (busts, small and large torsos).
After a brief period at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, Marcel Damboise completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason and moved to Paris, to 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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