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Paul Mas and Paul Louis Rinuy - Chauvin Sculpteur - Born in 1889, Jean Gabriel Chauvin is unanimously recognized as the precursor of abstract sculpture in France. His first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Jeanne Bucher in 1928. In 1935, he created the luminous vasque for the Normandie liner and the sculpture Signal for the 1937 Universal Exhibition. The Maeght gallery devoted a major retrospective to him in 1949, and in 1960 Christian Zervos published a monograph on him with Cahiers d'art. Just before his death in 1976, he donated all his maquettes to the Centre Georges Pompidou. This book is the catalog raisonné of Chauvin's sculptural work. It brings together 176 works and 160 full-page models, presented in chronological order of production. The author had access to the artist's personal archives, enabling him to reconstruct his production from the first exhibitions between the wars. This book gives a high profile to the artist's work. - Gourcuff Gradenigo - 2007
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Paul Mas and Paul Louis Rinuy - Chauvin Sculpteur - Born in 1889, Jean Gabriel Chauvin is unanimously recognized as the precursor of abstract sculpture in France. His first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Jeanne Bucher in 1928. In 1935, he created the luminous vasque for the Normandie liner and the sculpture Signal for the 1937 Universal Exhibition. The Maeght gallery devoted a major retrospective to him in 1949, and in 1960 Christian Zervos published a monograph on him with Cahiers d'art. Just before his death in 1976, he donated all his maquettes to the Centre Georges Pompidou. This book is the catalog raisonné of Chauvin's sculptural work. It brings together 176 works and 160 full-page models, presented in chronological order of production. The author had access to the artist's personal archives, enabling him to reconstruct his production from the first exhibitions between the wars. This book gives a high profile to the artist's work. - Gourcuff Gradenigo - 2007
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