"Paul Belmondo: Bronze Bust Of The Painter Edmond Heuzé"
Paul Belmondo (1898-1982)Bust of the painter Edmond HEUZE (1884-1967)
(Painter of the Butte de Montmartre, friend of André Hutter, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, ...)
Bronze with black patina, signed on the back
Ht .41cm On cubic marble base.
HT. 58cm total
(tiny égrenures on the edge of the base)
- €3,200 -
French sculptor and medalist, Paul Belmondo began sculpting in 1911, before studying architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers where he was student of Georges Béguet. After the war, he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and took lessons from Jean Boucher.
He then befriended Charles Despiau and their styles of portrait painters with an archaic spirit and simplified features are not without a certain similarity and mutual influence.
Belmondo receives many orders from the State, in particular for the Palais de Chaillot. He won the Algerian Grand Prize for Art in 1932 and then the Grand Prize of the City of Paris in 1936. He became a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1956 and a member of the Institut de France and from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1960.
(One of his three children is the film actor Jean-Paul Belmondo).
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