Charles Despiau (1874-1946) - Lot 128

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Charles Despiau (1874-1946) - Lot 128
Charles Despiau (1874-1946) Female nude leaning to the right Sanguine on paper Signed lower right "C. Despiau 23 x 36 cm Charles Despiau moved to Paris in 1891 to attend the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. He then joined the studio of sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias at the École des Beaux-Arts. From the 1900s, Despiau was particularly interested in portraiture. In 1907, Auguste Rodin invited him to work with him, which Despiau accepted. From 1901, Despiau was a member of the "Bande à Schnegg", a group of sculptors founded by brothers Lucien and Gaston Schnegg, including Antoine Bourdelle, Robert Wlérick, François Pompon, Charles Malfray, Jane Poupelet and Yvonne Serruys. Despiau is mobilized for the First World War. On his return from the war, Despiau lived in extreme poverty. Thanks to his friends André Derain, Maurice Vlaminck and André Dunoyer de Segonzac, he regained a regular income. In 1923, he took part in the creation of the Salon des Tuileries with Bourdelle, Maillol and members of the Schnegg gang. In 1968, a Despiau-Wlérick museum opened in his native Mont-de-Marsan. Michael Semff studied Charles Despiau's drawing skills in an exhibition at Munich's Neue Pinakothek in 1998 (see Charles Despiau Zeichnungen, cat. exp., Munich, Neue Pinakothek, October 22, 1998 - January 3, 1999, Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, 1998). Since then, a fine collection has featured in the exhibition devoted to the artist by the Beelden-an-Zee Museum in The Hague and the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus Museum in Bremen (see Charles Despiau: sculpteur mal-aimé, cat. exp., Beelden-an-Zee Museum, The Hague, November 1, 2013 - January 26, 2014; Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, February 9 - June 1, 2014 Zwolle: Waanders; Den Haag: Beelden-an-Zee Museum, 2013).
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