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Marcel Gaumont
Marcel Gaumont was a French sculptor born on 27 January 1880 in Tours. He died in Paris on 20 November 1962.
Gaumont was a pupil at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied under Louis-Ernest Barrias, François-Léon Sicard and Jules Coutan. He was the joint winner of the 1908 "Prix de Rome" along with Camille Crenier and this took him to Rome's Villa Médicis from 1909 to 1912. He exhibited regularly at the Salon de la Société des artistes français and in 1935 won their gold medal. In 1937 his four Metopes won the major prize at the Exposition internationale de Paris. These works had decorated the western façade of the Palais de Tokyo at that exhibition. In 1938 he was made an officer of the "Légion d'honneur". In 1939 he became professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1944 he was elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts taking the chair vacated by Paul Gasq.
This was Gaumont's submission to the school's 1900 competition for a "figure modelée" in the classical mode.
This was Gaumont's marble Ronde-bosse executed whilst a pupil at the school.
This was the plaster composition with which Gaumont shared the "Prix de Rome". The work is kept in the archives of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
The composer is buried in the cemetery of the Sainte-Valérie church in Varengeville-sur-mer.
This composition in Bourgogne stone dates to 1926 and is held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.
This university in Paris' 14th arrondissement and near the Porte d'Orléans includes a series of ēresidences for the students built in the style of various countries, The Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre building is that built in the Flemish style mainly to house students from Belgium, Gaumont created reliefs on the building's entrance.
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Marcel Gaumont
Marcel Gaumont was a French sculptor born on 27 January 1880 in Tours. He died in Paris on 20 November 1962.
Gaumont was a pupil at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied under Louis-Ernest Barrias, François-Léon Sicard and Jules Coutan. He was the joint winner of the 1908 "Prix de Rome" along with Camille Crenier and this took him to Rome's Villa Médicis from 1909 to 1912. He exhibited regularly at the Salon de la Société des artistes français and in 1935 won their gold medal. In 1937 his four Metopes won the major prize at the Exposition internationale de Paris. These works had decorated the western façade of the Palais de Tokyo at that exhibition. In 1938 he was made an officer of the "Légion d'honneur". In 1939 he became professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1944 he was elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts taking the chair vacated by Paul Gasq.
This was Gaumont's submission to the school's 1900 competition for a "figure modelée" in the classical mode.
This was Gaumont's marble Ronde-bosse executed whilst a pupil at the school.
This was the plaster composition with which Gaumont shared the "Prix de Rome". The work is kept in the archives of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.
The composer is buried in the cemetery of the Sainte-Valérie church in Varengeville-sur-mer.
This composition in Bourgogne stone dates to 1926 and is held by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours.
This university in Paris' 14th arrondissement and near the Porte d'Orléans includes a series of ēresidences for the students built in the style of various countries, The Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre building is that built in the Flemish style mainly to house students from Belgium, Gaumont created reliefs on the building's entrance.