René Babin (1919-1997) - Lot 234

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René Babin (1919-1997) - Lot 234
René Babin (1919-1997) Youth 1959 Oak Signed and dated on the right base "Babin R 1959". 140 x 24 x 23 cm Throughout his life, René Babin maintained a special affinity with direct carving. Stone is Babin's preferred material for this practice, and his forays into wood remain rare. The presence of cracks and nails suggests that Babin reused a beam, adapting to a given shape like the Romanesque sculptors whose work he admired. The result is a slender, narrow figure with a totemic appearance. Born in Paris in 1919, René Babin entered the École des Arts Appliqués in 1935 and attended Robert Wlérick's sculpture and Charles Malfray's drawing classes for three years, where he made friends with Raymond Martin, Jean Carton and Simon Goldberg. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon d'Automne and the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture. In 1964, Babin is invited to take part in the first Groupe des Neuf exhibition at the Galerie Vendôme. His work was shown in two major international exhibitions: Six Sculpteurs Européens at the Bianchini in New York in 1959 and an exhibition in Stockholm in 1970, with Charles Auffret and Gudmar Olovson. "A man of modesty and little inclination towards confidences, René Babin had a predilection for these compact forms, in which the blossoming of the masses and the melody of the curves are in themselves a way of expressing a whole inner life made up of silence, restrained emotion and trembling." (Dubois, Patrice, René Babin, sculpture exhibition, Paris, Axa Assurances, avenue Matignon, October - November 2001).
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