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Marcel DAMBOISE (1903-1992) Woman with a Shirt, 1935-1945 Plaster Signed (on the back right terrace): Damboise, and signed and dated (on the back right terrace) Damboise 1951 H. 39.5 ; W. 11.5 ; D. 8 cm Inv. S-086-00b Provenance: Artist's studio By descent The Woman with a Shirt is a well known model of the sculptor. There is a marble and a bronze and terracotta edition. Two plaster casts belong to the collections of La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent since 2018. BIOGRAPHY: After a brief stint at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, Marcel Damboise completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason 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) Woman with a Shirt, 1935-1945 Plaster Signed (on the back right terrace): Damboise, and signed and dated (on the back right terrace) Damboise 1951 H. 39.5 ; W. 11.5 ; D. 8 cm Inv. S-086-00b Provenance: Artist's studio By descent The Woman with a Shirt is a well known model of the sculptor. There is a marble and a bronze and terracotta edition. Two plaster casts belong to the collections of La Piscine - Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent since 2018. BIOGRAPHY: After a brief stint at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, Marcel Damboise completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason 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.
