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Constantin ANDRÉOU (1917-2007) Darling Mummy, 1997 Work in gilded brass, signed Height: 173 cm Width : 39 cm Depth : 21 cm Unique piece Provenance : Private collection of the artist Momie Darling is entirely representative of Andréou's work. First and foremost, it reflects his interest in the female figure. It exalts the poetry, lyricism and sensuality so characteristic of the artist's work. It also reflects the sculptor's interest in the play of light that gives rise to movement, thanks to the alternation of perfectly smooth surfaces with hollows and stretched brass wires. Mummy Darling seems encased in a corset of stretched brass wires and strips, emphasizing the attributes of her femininity. In an extreme stylization of form, Andréou superimposes spheres - her head, breasts, belly, buttocks - suggesting a body of triumphant femininity. With her pure, hieratic vertical structure, she becomes a totem, an idol, a divinity. Born in Brazil, he left for Greece in 1925, his parents' homeland. It was here that he began drawing and sculpting. Genuinely self-taught, he came into contact with ancient and classical sculpture and began carving marble. In 1942, he exhibited at the Panhellenic Salon in Greece. He moved to Paris in 1945, enriching his art through "contact with artists and their cultural environment". For a few months, he attended the École des Arts Décoratifs and the École des Beaux-Arts. He met Le Corbusier, with whom he worked occasionally. This collaboration gave Andréou a better understanding of the relationship between architecture and sculpture, and of the function of color in space. These two reflections were to be of great importance throughout his career as an artist. In his Parisian studio, he experimented and sought to develop a new artistic language, a new technique that he developed with soldered brass, which would remain the basis of his plastic expression. Brass sheets are cut, hammered and cold-formed before being welded together. They are then filed down to eliminate any grainy texture and create a perfectly smooth surface on which the light glides. His work, while moving away from figuration, nonetheless retains contact with reality, giving rise to sculptures whose dominant theme is the human form, particularly the female form, but also animals and birds. Over the course of his life, his work was guided by sensitivity, and he claimed that his art was poetic. He participated in numerous exhibitions in France, Greece, Brazil, the United States, Canada and Japan, among others, and six times at the Salon d'Automne, where he was appointed President for sculpture in 1982, as well as at the Antwerp Biennial (1953) and the Venice Biennial (1966).

Estim. 50 000 - 60 000 EUR

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Marguerite LAVRILLIER-COSSACEANU (1893 -1980) Female torso, 1945-1946 Numbered 2/8 (on the front of the right thigh) Green-brown patina bronze proof Posthumous lost-wax casting Coubertin Signed "Margaret Cossaceanu". Foundry stamp and date (on back of right thigh): 1993 Height: 114 cm; Width: 36 cm; Depth: 32 cm "Her science and great spontaneous gifts place her at the forefront of young modern statuary", wrote Antoine Bourdelle in 1928, of the woman who was his pupil at the Grande Chaumière academy from 1922 onwards, along with Germaine Richier and Alberto Giacometti, and then his collaborator until his death in 1929. At the same time, she became a pupil and practitioner of her Paris-based compatriot, Constantin Brancusi. Born in Bucharest to a mother who taught French and a father who was an engineer, the young woman had already made a name for herself at the fine arts school in her native city, first in the studio of the Symbolist sculptor Dimitrie Paciuera (1873-1932), then in Rome. It was in the Eternal City that she met the man who was to become her husband, André Lavrillier (1885-1958), who won the Grand Prix de Rome for medal engraving in 1914. Acclaimed by commissions and exhibitions, Marguerite Lavrillier-Cossaceanu's work is represented by some thirty works in public collections in France (Musée de la Marine, Musée d'Orsay, Musée de la Monnaie, Cité de la Musique, etc.) and abroad. This is one of the most important models in the work of Marguerite Lavrillier-Cossaceanu (1893-1980). It would appear that the plaster model of this Torso was exhibited at the 1946 Salon d'Automne (no. 812), and again at the 1962 Salon d'Automne (no. 414). The bronze proof acquired in 1955 (AMS 390), kept by the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, was cast by Susse in 1949. It was shown at the Salon d'Automne in 1949 (no. 851) and at the exhibition organized by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1952. Finally, the work appeared at the Biennale Formes Humaines held at the Musée Rodin in 1968.

Estim. 35 000 - 40 000 EUR

Sun 04 Aug

Leonard BENATOV (1942- 2018) HOMAGE TO DALI, THE HARD AND THE SOFT Bust of DALI Patinated bronze proof N°EF, cast by the artist in his foundry Height: 82 cm with base; Width: 55 cm; Depth: 39 cm; Base: 17 x 36 x 31 cm Bust of GALA Proof in patinated bronze N°EF, cast by the artist in his foundry Height: 82 cm with base; Width: 48 cm; Depth: 39 cm; Base: 17 x 36 x 31 cm Leonardo Benatov was born in 1942 into a family of artists who had fled Communist Russia. At the age of 16, Leonardo joined an uncle in Brazil and tried to cross the Amazon. Captured by anthropophagous Indians, he remained a prisoner for a year after marrying the daughter of the tribe's chief, Erik Paxa. In 1964, the military revolution in Brazil forced him to return to France, where he tried unsuccessfully to present a sculpture at the Salon d'Automne. From then on, Léonardo never stopped drawing and sculpting, and in 1975/76 he naturally arrived at the fonte d'art. From then on, this physically imposing artist pursued his career as a foundry manager and sculptor simultaneously, placing particular emphasis on feelings, distress and grandeur in his work. Adorning parks and public buildings, we can admire an "Exploded Man" in the garden-museum of the town of Gravelines, a representation of the musician Rossini at the Opera House in Pesaro, his hometown (as well as at UNESCO), a bust of Napoleon at Ajaccio airport... Leonardo Benatov is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

Estim. 28 000 - 32 000 EUR
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