Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953) The Thinker Proof... - Lot 43 - Crait + Müller

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Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953) The Thinker Proof... - Lot 43 - Crait + Müller
Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953) The Thinker Proof in bronze with green shaded patina. Signed Raoul Lamourdedieu on the rock on the right. Bears the difficult to read stamp of the founder Jollet, active from 1906 to 1923. In a brass cartouche on a wooden base To Mr. Hubert Quet/ L'Association amicale des anciens élèves du Lycée Arago (1880-1921). H. 39 cm RELATED LITERATURE : 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 medalist, member of the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne. In 1894, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux and became familiar with carving with a woodcarver. In 1897, he entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Alexandre Falguière. He continued his training with Alexandre Charpentier and then, under the tutelage of Louis-Ernest Barrias, took part in the decoration of the Grand-Palais with François Sicard and Paul Landowski. Influenced by the work of Auguste Rodin at first, his style quickly evolved towards calmer and more massive profiles, clearer and purer planes. If stone sculpted in direct cut remains his favourite material, his bronze works bear the same artistic research: "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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