Watercolor and pen, Nude by Paul BELMONDO
Watercolor and pen, Nude by Paul BELMONDO
2.500,00 €
BELMONDO Paul 1898-1982
Sculptor of monuments, statues, groups, nudes, busts, sculptor of medals, watercolorist, draftsman.
He made his Paris debut at a very early age, at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he won a second medal; he then exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne, and was awarded the Prix Blumenthal in 1926, as well as the Grand Prix Artistique de l'Afrique du Nord.
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| Dimensions | 38 × 44 cm |
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In 1929, he received a grant from the Algerian government to continue his studies in Paris. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, studying under Jean Boucher. It was during this period that Charles Despiau became interested in a bust he was working on.
Belmondo became his pupil and soon his friend. Despiau, he said, passed on to him the craft and tradition of his master Rodin.
. In 1939, he became a member of the Salon d'Automne, before being drafted again. In 1942, he joined the committee of the Salon des Tuileries.
In 1952, he was appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he taught until 1969. In 1954, he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur. In 1956, he was awarded the Grand Prix des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.
Paul Belmondo enjoyed an award-winning career. Unaffected by the aesthetic mutations of the century, an excellent and probing practitioner, his art was nourished by the classical tradition, to which he added a delicate sense of grace.
