Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) - Lot 257

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Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) - Lot 257
Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) Medallion of Professor Pierre-Paul Grassé, 1978 Lacquered gum studio plaster Signed and dated (under the neck): Damboise 1978 Inscription (on the perimeter, in relief). : PIERRE-PAUL GRASSE 1895-19 D. 26 cm Inv. MD-S-134-00d Provenance: Artist's studio, by descent Marcel Damboise probably met Professor Pierre-Paul Grassé (1895-1985) through his sculptor friends from the Académie, during an event at the Institut. Grassé, an eminent zoologist, has been an academician since 1948. Marcel Damboise executed his portrait in medallion and bust: a bronze proof of the bust is probably in the scientist's family. For the medallion presented here, the sculptor certainly took the medallion made at the end of the 1970s at the time of his friend's death in 1985, and added his birth and death dates.
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