Null Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992)

Albert Camus, 1961-1963

Plaster.

43,5 x 20 x…
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Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) Albert Camus, 1961-1963 Plaster. 43,5 x 20 x 26 cm RELATED LITERATURE : Jean-Baptiste Auffret, Danielle Damboise, Ève Turbat, Marcel Damboise (1903-1992), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Malaquais, 2008. Marcel Damboise painted this portrait of the writer after his death in a car accident in 1960. In 1932-1935, Albert Camus, a student in his twenties, took an interest in Damboise's work, who was then a resident at the Villa Abd el-Tif in Algiers. Camus publishes inspired reviews of the sculptor's work, the two men meet and a strong friendship is born between them. They shared a knowledge and taste for ancient Greece. As far as we know, another terracotta print, also unnumbered, is kept in a private collection. This model was also produced in bronze; a copy is in the library of the Théâtre de l'Odéon. It is an Emile Godard cast, numbered 0/8, signed Damboise 1962, and purchased from the artist in 1964. BIOGRAPHY: After a brief stint at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, Marcel Damboise apprenticed as a stonecutter and moved to Paris, to La Ruche, in 1926, with his friend the sculptor Louis Dideron. In 1928, he married Yvette Dorignac, daughter of the painter Georges Dorignac. He rubbed shoulders with the painter's entourage, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and met Paul Cornet, Charles Despiau, Aristide Maillol and Charles Malfray, who became his spiritual teachers. During his stay at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria, between 1932 and 1935, he executed numerous commissions, including the Fondouk Monument, which were noticed by Albert Camus, with whom he became friends. During the war, in France, he created a large female figure for the city of Bordeaux and a high relief of Saint Marcel for the church in Vitry-sur-Seine. He stayed again in Algeria from 1948 to 1954 and, on his return to Paris, was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts and became a founding member of the Groupe des Neuf.

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Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) Albert Camus, 1961-1963 Plaster. 43,5 x 20 x 26 cm RELATED LITERATURE : Jean-Baptiste Auffret, Danielle Damboise, Ève Turbat, Marcel Damboise (1903-1992), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Malaquais, 2008. Marcel Damboise painted this portrait of the writer after his death in a car accident in 1960. In 1932-1935, Albert Camus, a student in his twenties, took an interest in Damboise's work, who was then a resident at the Villa Abd el-Tif in Algiers. Camus publishes inspired reviews of the sculptor's work, the two men meet and a strong friendship is born between them. They shared a knowledge and taste for ancient Greece. As far as we know, another terracotta print, also unnumbered, is kept in a private collection. This model was also produced in bronze; a copy is in the library of the Théâtre de l'Odéon. It is an Emile Godard cast, numbered 0/8, signed Damboise 1962, and purchased from the artist in 1964. BIOGRAPHY: After a brief stint at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, Marcel Damboise apprenticed as a stonecutter and moved to Paris, to La Ruche, in 1926, with his friend the sculptor Louis Dideron. In 1928, he married Yvette Dorignac, daughter of the painter Georges Dorignac. He rubbed shoulders with the painter's entourage, exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and met Paul Cornet, Charles Despiau, Aristide Maillol and Charles Malfray, who became his spiritual teachers. During his stay at the Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria, between 1932 and 1935, he executed numerous commissions, including the Fondouk Monument, which were noticed by Albert Camus, with whom he became friends. During the war, in France, he created a large female figure for the city of Bordeaux and a high relief of Saint Marcel for the church in Vitry-sur-Seine. He stayed again in Algeria from 1948 to 1954 and, on his return to Paris, was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts and became a founding member of the Groupe des Neuf.

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