René Babin (1919-1997) - Lot 242

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René Babin (1919-1997) - Lot 242
René Babin (1919-1997) La Grenade - Large Model 1966 Terracotta proof Signed and numbered on the base, left: "R. Babin 1/8". 79 x 35 x 42 cm The terracotta edition of La Grenade - Grand Modèle comprises only two proofs. It is made by the artist from the stone he cut directly. "La Grenade, as he chose to call it, is like one of those splendid fruits about to blossom. The bust, so full of movement that in its wild ripening it gives off a sensation of pimento, has the brilliance of these forms bursting with sap." (Patrice Dubois, René Babin, Paris, Assurances Axa, avenue Matignon, October-November 2001, p. 2). 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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