Pair Of Drawings By Alfred Auguste Janniot (1889 -1969) Studies Of Nude

I offer you this set of two beautiful red chalk drawings representing female nudes. These studies are sold as is. They are signed and the largest is dated (19)43 Original drawings by Alfred Auguste Janniot, sculptor. Alfred Auguste Janniot is one of the leaders of the Art Deco aesthetic. Biography Alfred Janniot was born on June 13, 1889 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, from the marriage of Auguste Janniot, hairdresser, and Maria Antonia Grilli. A student at the Paris School of Fine Arts, Alfred Janniot is part of the generation of “fire artists”, linked to the Great War. Returning from the First World War, in 1919 he won the first Rome Prize for sculpture2 which he shared with the sculptor Raymond Delamarre. He became a professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts. Janniot is the author of an important monumental work. Friend of Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann and the painter Louis Bouquet, he participated in the Exhibition of Decorative Arts of 1925, created the large stone bas-relief on the facade of the Musée des Colonies, built on the occasion of the Colonial Exhibition from 1931, and decorates with two large bas-reliefs the rear facade of the Palais de Tokyo built in 1937, near the fountain. His work is also present in New York and Nice, where he created with the architect Roger Séassal the large Art Deco style war memorial on the Corniche, as well as the fountain of the sun on Place Masséna4. He also sculpted the bas-reliefs adorning the pediments of the town hall and the main post office of Puteaux in 1934, the fresco of the main staircase being entrusted to Louis Bouquet. In Bordeaux, in 1937 he created reliefs on the facade of the labor exchange. He is also the author of the statue which is on the landing of the prints and photography department of the National Library of France.