" Charles Bouget, Portrait Of A Bearded Man Wearing A Hat (1926)"
CHARLES BOUGET (Bagnères-de-Bigorre, 1891-1981)Portrait of a bearded man wearing a hat
Possibly Mr. Fourcade
Marble in direct carving
47 x 30 x 5 cm
Signed under the neck: Bouget 1926
Brim of the hat restored on the left
Born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre in 1891, Charles Bouget was first an apprentice at the Grande Marbrerie then a student of the Bagnères sculptors Joseph Gardy and Dulout, before leaving for Paris to work with Jacques Escoula, himself a Bagnères sculptor. In 1939 he returned to Bagnères-de-Bigorre and after the war was appointed curator of the Salies Museum.
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