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Jo DAVIDSON (1883-1952) Anatole France Bronze with brown patina shaded with green. Signed, located and dated JO DAVIDSON / PARIS - 1922 on the left shoulder. Bears the founder's stamp C VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE. H.45 cm, rests on a blackened wooden base H. 8 cm Jo Davidson, originally from New York, trained as a sculptor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1907 before continuing his career in his native city. He made portraiture his specialty and created busts of his most illustrious contemporaries such as Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Mahatma Gandhi and Ida Rubinstein among others. This bust is a repetition of the portrait of Anatole France, a famous writer, member of the French Academy from 1896 and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, made for the Annex of the Senate Library.
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Jo DAVIDSON (1883-1952) Anatole France Bronze with brown patina shaded with green. Signed, located and dated JO DAVIDSON / PARIS - 1922 on the left shoulder. Bears the founder's stamp C VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE. H.45 cm, rests on a blackened wooden base H. 8 cm Jo Davidson, originally from New York, trained as a sculptor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1907 before continuing his career in his native city. He made portraiture his specialty and created busts of his most illustrious contemporaries such as Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Mahatma Gandhi and Ida Rubinstein among others. This bust is a repetition of the portrait of Anatole France, a famous writer, member of the French Academy from 1896 and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, made for the Annex of the Senate Library.
