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Sun 28 Jul

Georges-Lucien GUYOT (1885-1973) "Lioness Rare bronze sculpture with brown patina Signed "Guyot", founder's stamp Susse Frères Éditeurs Paris and annotated "Cire perdue". Cire perdue" (lost wax) Circa 1930 H: 29 cm - W: 54 cm - D: 12.5 cm Bibliography: "Mobilier et Décoration", year 1930, model reproduced on page 17. GEORGES-LUCIEN GUYOT Georges-Lucien Guyot was a French sculptor born in Paris on December 10, 1885. Paris. Despite his modest background, Guyot showed an obvious talent for art, but his financial situation prevented him from pursuing artistic studies. financial situation. He was apprenticed to a wood sculptor, but his passion for art for art led him to study nature on his own, drawing the animals animals at the Jardin des Plantes. At the age of 17, his father gave him the option of training for a year before joining the army. Guyot spent this year studying at the d'Histoire Naturelle, where he closely observed wild animals and their anatomical details. In 1904, he joined the army while attending evening classes evening classes at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. In 1906, when a ceramic kiln was installed at the École des Beaux-Arts, Guyot creates a clay bear that attracts the attention of a teacher. This sculpture is exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and marks the beginning of artistic career. After the war, Guyot settled in Montmartre and enjoyed creative period, exhibiting his sculptures, Cubist-influenced paintings Cubist-influenced paintings and animal drawings in numerous galleries. In 1931, he joined the Douze Animaliers Français group and regularly and regularly exhibited his work at art fairs. He received numerous commissions for monumental sculptures from the French state and municipalities. At the same time, Guyot worked for the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres from 1929 to 1950. In 1950, he was named Chevalier, then Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, and in 1972, he became the first sculptor to receive the Prix Edouard Marcel Sandoz Prize. The end of his life was marked by the fire in his studio at the Bateau Lavoir in 1970, destroying much of his work. Guyot died three years later, on December 31, 1972. Furniture and decoration January 1930

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Sun 28 Jul

Jean DUNAND (1877-1942) "Waders" also known as "Birds Rare folding screen featuring four articulated rectangular panels in lacquered wood with finely incised polychrome decoration on a gilded leaf background. Signed lower right "JEAN DUNAND". Created in 1933, unique piece H : 180 L : 200 cm Provenance: Private collection, South of France Bibliography: "Jean Dunand", by Félix and Amélie Marcilhac, Norma Éditions, Paris, 2020, documented in black and white on page 212 under number 169. Exhibition: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1933, n7 Note: We know of a gouache-on-paper project for a four-leaf folding screen with a design almost identical to ours, titled La nichée and dating from 1933-1935. It was made for a project commissioned by Valentine Brun, but apparently never realized. Jean DUNAND Born in Switzerland in 1877, Jean Dunand specialized in metalworking at the École des Arts Industriels in Geneva from the age of 14. With his diploma in hand, he moved to Paris in 1897, working as a chaser while studying at the École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in the workshop of sculptor Jean Dampt. His introduction to the subtleties of coppersmithing with a Geneva artisan during his vacations in Switzerland, and his commitment to the Association des Artistes Suisses in Paris, which he founded in 1899, testify to his deep bond with his native country. In 1900, Dunand received a gold medal for a sculpture at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. His first exhibition of dinanderie at the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1904 encouraged him to move definitively into the decorative arts. Determined to produce unique pieces, he abandoned the turning and stamping processes in favor of hammering and hand chasing, incorporating gold or silver inlays, patinas, lacquers or enamels. After a first international success at the Milan International Exhibition in 1906, Dunand discovered Chinese and Japanese bronzes, influencing his style towards more realistic ornamentation. In 1912, he deepened his knowledge of lacquer with Japanese master Seizo Sugawara, a technique that would become central to his work. Although the Great War interrupted his activity, he remained in France, signing on as an ambulance driver and designing a combat helmet for French soldiers. After the war, Dunand devoted himself intensely to lacquer, a technique that fascinated him, and created works that integrated metal and lacquer. His work attracted attention at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, where he was recognized as a master of lacquer and metal. In the 1930s, he completed prestigious commissions, notably for the liners l'Atlantique and Normandie. Working with his son Bernard, Jean Dunand continued to perfect his art until his death in 1942. His work, combining technical skill and creativity, made him an icon of the Decorative Arts, symbolizing the spirit of the Roaring Twenties.

Estim. 20 000 - 30 000 EUR

Mon 29 Jul

GEORGES ROUSSE (Paris, 1947). "Luxembourg: Fers à Bétons", 2004. Print on aluminum, copy 1/5. Signed and titled on verso. Label with stamp on the back. Measurements: 160 x 125 cm; 165 x 132 cm (frame). Georges Rousse's work is characterized, since the beginning of the eighties, by the relationships he establishes between photography, painting, sculpture and architecture. His interest in abandoned, dismantled and ruined places, as well as in what these spaces reveal about the culture that has generated them, led him, in 1986, to settle for a time in the former Van Gogh psychiatric hospital in the French town of Arles. The result of this stay was the Arles series, which was the starting point of the MACBA exhibition. His work is a very significant example of the importance that photography achieved throughout the eighties and further proof of the value of the photographic device as a tool for contemporary creation. Collapsing the usual restrictions among artistic media, his unique work quickly made its mark on the contemporary art world. Since his first exhibition in Paris, at the Galerie de France in 1981, Georges Rousse has continued to create his installations and show his photographs all over the world, in Europe, in Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Nepal), in the United States, in Quebec and in Latin America. He has participated in numerous biennials (Paris, Venice, Sydney) and received many prestigious awards: 1983: Villa Medicis hors les murs, New York City 1985 -1987: Villa Medicis, Rome 1988: International Center of Photography Award, New York 1989: Drawing Prize Salon de Montrouge 1992: Romain Roland Fellowship, Calcutta 1993: Grand Prix National de Photographie 2008: Succeeded Sol LeWitt as associate member of the Royal Belgian Academy. He is represented by several European galleries and his works are included in many important collections around the world.

Estim. 15 000 - 18 000 EUR