Large Bronze Around 1910, 70 Cm, Bacchante, By Arthur Puyt 1873/1955

Period: early 20th century around 1910, lost wax bronze with a very beautiful dark patina, in very good condition, with marble base.
Signed: Arthur PUYT 1873 / 1955, referenced artist and side, present in Museums...
Subject: Bust of Bacchante
Dimensions: height: 70 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 30 cm, - 22 Kg

Biography:
Arthur PUYT 1873 / 1955
Born in Bruges in 1873, died in 1955, Puyt is a sculptor of the Belgian School.
He studied at the Brussels Academy, with the sculptor Charles Van Der Strappen (1843-1910). Student of sculptors Julien Dillens and Jef Lambeaux. He set up his own workshop in Forest.
He participated in numerous exhibitions: Before the First World War, he regularly exhibited his work; in 1904, at the Antwerp Triennial Salon (1904), a plaster statue: The Zélandaise, Leaving the Church on a Winter's Day. At the Exhibition of Belgian Work (1910), he won a gold medal for Tête de bacchante. At the Cercle Artistique de Tournai (1912), he exhibited the statues The Thinker and Return from Vespers; the same year, at the Salon Triennal de Liège, he obtained a gold medal for the work: Loup de Mer; At the Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts (1915), he showed his Snake Charmer and Ball Player.
Numerous busts full of character and portraits in relief. In 1912, the Department of Colonies acquired, for the Tervuren Museum, the group Copper Founders in Katango. He made this statue based on a drawing by an artist who was residing in the Belgian Congo at the time. After the First World War, he created various war memorials. During the inauguration of the monument, Arthur Puyt will be congratulated by the alderman of Public Works. He also created the Bouvignes Monument, in Dinant, where a soldier is represented clutching the sacred standard, a symbol of the resistance of our fighters. The statue is installed on a raised plane supported by blocks of rock; it will be inaugurated by Mayor Wéry. A third monument for the dead soldiers of Jehonville.
The bronzes are cast at the Cie de Bruxelles, in Brussels. In 1930, he exhibited at the Salon du Cercle Artistique in Tournai. In 1935, he created the Le Vainqueur trophy for Journal Le Soir.
This “Prix du Journal” trophy will be awarded to the winner of the competition, at the Beverloo camp. The same year, Arthur Puyt also created the La Victoire trophy, which would be awarded as the “Army Prize at Camp de Beverloo”. In 1945, he created a medal for the First American Army. Numerous medals and plaques which will be executed by the firms Fonson and Fisch. Accidented by a tram in 1950, the artist ceased his activities and died in 1955. Works in public space: - plaque to the deaths of former students of school no. 3, Saint-Gilles, 1926 - Monument of Bouvignes, Dinant - War memorial, Jehonville - Tomb of Charles Muls, cemetery of Saint-Gilles, Uccle - Grave of Prosper Mathiys - Grave of the Vanounsem family, Cemetery of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean - Monument of the De Becker-Hemeleers family, cemetery of 'Evere - Denies-Fabry Monument, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert cemetery Source: PIRON Paul. Dictionary of Belgian visual artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Editions Art in Belgium, Ohain-Lasne, 2003, 2 volumes, Volume 2, p325. ENGELEN Cor and MARX Mieke.
Beeldhouwkunst in België vanaf 1830, Algemeen Rijksarchief, Studia 90, Brussels, 2002, 3 volumes, Volume 2, pp1314-1317.

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