Camille Marie Paul Alaphi- lippe (1874-after 1939) - Lot 101

Camille Marie Paul Alaphi- lippe (1874-after 1939) The beggar Bronze with brown patina shaded with green Signed "Alaphilippe". Bears the founder's stamp "CIRE / A. VALSUANI / PERDUE". H. 67 cm A student of François Sicard at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tours, then of Jean-Paul Laurens and Ernest Barrias in Paris, Camille Alaphilippe won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1898 for a sculpture on the theme of "Cain, after the death of Abel, pursued by celestial vengeance". On his return from the Villa Médicis, he was appointed director of the sculpture workshop at Alexandre Bigot's stoneware factory. After the Great War, during which he was mobilized, he settled in Algeria and headed the sculpture department at the Algiers School of Fine Arts. Related literature : -Stéphane Richemond, Les Orientalistes, dictionnaire des sculptures, XIXème-XXème siècles, Paris, Les Editions de l'Amateur, 2008, illustrated model p.35, pp. 35-36 ; -Camille Alaphilippe: le sculpteur oublié du parc Mirabeau, Tours, Ville de Tours, 2012, bronze model illustrated p. 31.