François-Émile POPINEAU (1887-1951) - Lot 75

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François-Émile POPINEAU (1887-1951) - Lot 75
François-Émile POPINEAU (1887-1951) Messaouda or the young Oriental woman Bronze with brown patina. Signed E. Popineau on the base. Bears the number 8/20, a BRONZE stamp and the mark CIRE PERDUE PANINI. H. 78 cm RELATED LITERATURE : Stéphane Richemond, Les Salons des artistes coloniaux, Paris, Editions de l'Amateur, 2003, p. 215 François Popineau, a sculptor from Berry, was awarded a travel grant by the Conseil Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in 1924 and his first gold medal at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in 1925. He presented for the first time this bronze figure of a young oriental woman at the Exhibition of the Colonial Society of French Artists and at the Bernheim Jeune gallery in November 1927, then again in 1930 and in 1935. He also exhibited Messaouda at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris 1931 and at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1935.
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