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Charles AUFFRET (1929-20) - Lot 135

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Charles AUFFRET (1929-20) - Lot 135
Charles AUFFRET (1929-20) The Prayer, circa 1965 Bronze print, EA I/IV. Delval investment casting. Signed CH. AUFFRET. 43 x 10 x 10 cm BIBLIOGRAPHY : - François Roussier (préf.), Charles Auffret (1929-2001), Sculptures-dessins, cat.exp., Voiron, Musée Mainssieux (30 March - 8 September 2002), Voiron, Musée Mainssieux, 2002, repr. - Charles Auffret, Rome, villa Médicis (9 May - 15 July 2007), Paris, Somogy éditions d'art, 2007. After becoming immersed in Burgundian sculpture while studying at the Dijon School of Fine Arts, Charles Auffret left to study at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. He set up his studio in the Buttes-Chaumont district in 1958 and discovered the work of Charles Despiau, Robert Wlérick and Charles Malfray. In 1964, he receives the Prix du Groupe des Neuf (which includes Jean Carton, Marcel Damboise and Jean Osouf). The following year, winner of the International Sculpture Prize of the Paul Ricard Foundation, Charles Auffret was invited to take up residence on the Island of Bendor with his wife, the sculptor Arlette Ginioux. There he erected a monumental sculpture called L'Éveil, a major work. He took part in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad, taught drawing at the Malebranche Academy and at the Beaux-Arts in Reims before being appointed professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. After his death, several retrospectives paid tribute to him: at the Mainssieux Museum in Voiron, the Villa Médicis in Rome and the Despiau-Wlérick Museum in Mont-de-Marsan. The Prayer, whose silent posture conveys a sense of humility and meditation, embodies Charles Auffret's first idea for the Virgin in sycamore wood, which was commissioned for the church in Rochefort-en-Yvelines. Finally, the Virgin of Rochefort-en-Yvelines, still in place, does not represent a woman in prayer, but a woman laying her hands on her heart. See Figure draped in
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