The Fisherman With The Traps By François Méheut - Brittany

Terracotta signed on the terrace and marked by the founder Susse Frères. Around 1935. Length 45 cm, height 36 cm.

François Méheut (1905-1981) is not related to the painter Mathurin Méheut, who was also inspired by Breton traditions. His father is a cabinetmaker in Saint-Brieuc. After three years of study at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes, François Méheut was admitted to the École des Beaux-arts in Paris where he was a student of Jean Boucher. In 1930, he won the first Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture. Until 1940, when he was mobilized and taken prisoner, he collaborated with the Susse foundry in the production of numerous sculptures. He was appointed drawing teacher in Boulogne-sur-mer then in Nantes at the Eugène Livet high school. He then abandoned sculpture to devote himself exclusively to painting.