Jean LETOURNEUR (1954) - Lot 178

Jean LETOURNEUR (1954) Figurehead 2010 Bronze proof Signed and numbered (on base) : J. LETOURNEUR 1/8 Founder's stamp and date (on base, rear right): Fusions 2015 59 x 18 x 26 cm Bronze base: 0.8 x 15.5 x 26 cm Here, Jean Letourneur takes the opposite approach to the frozen figureheads of the 17th and 18th centuries. His female figure appears to be undulating: not draped, but clothed in masses of moving air. By materializing the air movements that surround her, he gives her figure an upward motion and great fluidity. At the same time, he created Eve (cat. no. 174), part of the same quest: to make visible movements that are normally invisible. Exhibitions : - 2012, Meudon, Centre d'art et de culture: La quête de l'unité. - 2015, les Essarts-le-Roi, salle polyvalente: Artists in the Chevreuse Valley. Bibliography: Salvatore Vicario, "Jean Letourneur e la scultura policroma, Storie d'arte e amore nel parco Letourneur-Zwobada a Fontenay-aux-Roses", ARTE, January 25, 2017, repr.