Description
Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953). Female nude reclining and leaning. Direct-cut wood sculpture signed on the terrace (cracks). Height : 49 cm - Length : 75 cm - Depth : 25 cm Note: A student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he alternated between the workshops of Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) and Alexandre Charpentier (1856-1909), the latter passing on to him his taste for creating medals. His medals include those of Santos-Dumont and President Raymond Poincaré. At the same time, he took up woodcarving, which he later theorized in a treatise published in 1941. Raoul Lamourdedieu remains an artist of international renown, to be found throughout Europe and especially in France, thanks to public commissions for war memorials and cultural monuments in Paris (Grand Palais, Musée d'art moderne).
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Raoul LAMOURDEDIEU (1877-1953). Female nude reclining and leaning. Direct-cut wood sculpture signed on the terrace (cracks). Height : 49 cm - Length : 75 cm - Depth : 25 cm Note: A student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he alternated between the workshops of Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) and Alexandre Charpentier (1856-1909), the latter passing on to him his taste for creating medals. His medals include those of Santos-Dumont and President Raymond Poincaré. At the same time, he took up woodcarving, which he later theorized in a treatise published in 1941. Raoul Lamourdedieu remains an artist of international renown, to be found throughout Europe and especially in France, thanks to public commissions for war memorials and cultural monuments in Paris (Grand Palais, Musée d'art moderne).
