Léandre Grandmoulin (1873-1957). “meditative Young Woman”. 1900. Plaster.

Workshop plaster, signed and dated 1900. Dimensions: 42 cm x 24 cm x 29 cm.
Léandre Grandmoulin (1873-1957).
Belgian sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels with Van der Stappen.
Second at the Prix de Rome in 1900, he was one of the diligent members of the Cercle Artistique du Laboreur from 1898 where he exhibited plasters. Participated in the Centennial Exhibition of the Academy of Brussels in 1900 and in Antwerp in 1901.
In 1905, he exhibited the model of a quarry which had been ordered from him for the Place de la Gare in Soignies, in granite. During the major exhibition in Charleroi in 1911, Grandmoulin notably presented a Sleeping Child (marble).
He was a professor at the Academy of Saint-Gilles.
The museums of Brussels, Saint-Gilles and Antwerp hold some of his works.