Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953) The Thinker Bronze... - Lot 70 - Crait + Müller

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Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953) The Thinker Bronze... - Lot 70 - Crait + Müller
Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953) The Thinker Bronze print with a shaded green patina. Signed " Raoul Lamourdedieu on the rock on the right. Bears the hard-to-read stamp of the founder Jollet, active from 1906 to 1923. In a brass cartouche on a wooden base A Monsieur Hubert Quet/ L'Association amicale des anciens élèves du Lycée Arago (1880-1921). H. 39 cm LITERATURE IN RAPPORT : Charles Fegdal, Raoul Lamourdedieu, L'Art et les artistes : revue mensuelle d'art ancien et moderne..., n°135, March-July 1933, p. 268-272. Raoul Lamourdedieu is a French sculptor and medallist, member of the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne. In 1894, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and learned the art of carving from a wood sculptor. In 1897, he joined the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in Alexandre Falguière's workshop. He continued his training with Alexandre Charpentier and then, under the tutelage of Louis-Ernest Barrias, participated in the decoration of the Grand Palais with François Sicard and Paul Landowski. Initially influenced by the work of Auguste Rodin, his style quickly evolved towards calmer, more massive profiles and clearer, purer planes. If stone carved in direct carving remains his preferred material, his bronze works carry the same research artistique : "to penetrate the spirit of beings" (Charles Fegdal in L'Art et les artistes, op. cit.); a concern that the titles of his works - L'hymne au soleil : Fécondité, La Bonté, L'Agilité, La Force - explicitly evoke.
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