Pierre Combet-descombes (1885 - 1966) - Nude Bust 2

Pierre Combet-Descombes studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon from 1902 in the architecture section, then decorative art. He left the School in 1905. Bonnardel, his teacher, let him express himself freely in all areas: male models, urban landscapes, flowers, decorations... He exhibited in Lyon from 1906. In 1909, he entered into attended the École des Beaux-Arts for the decorative landscape competition and won the Ponthus-Cinier prize. In 1925, examples of his work were presented in a group exhibition at the Usée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He sets up decorative compositions for the town hall of the 7th arrondissement of Paris. With a Baudelairean sensibility, Combet-Descombes celebrates the female body throughout his life. By a muscular line of a single movement, a way of inscribing the body of the model in space, he makes of this body, most often contemplated at altitude, from the top of a stepladder, a plastic sign of a rare sensuality.