20th Century Bronze, 46 Cm, Signed Mj Bourron, Numbered 2/8, Africa

Period: 20th century, dated 1999, Bronze in perfect condition, lost wax bronze.
Signed: Bourron, referenced artist and listed. bears the stamp of the founder PAUMELLE (Marne) and the year of production 99 for 1999 and numbered 2/8 This bronze is included in the next catalog raisonné under the number: MGG_1020, released in 2022.
Subject: "Africa"
Dimensions: 46 cm high, width: 37 cm, depth: 30 cm, 16.6 Kg

Biography:
Marie-Josèphe BOURRON 1931 / 2012
Marie-Jo Bourron, pseudonym of Marie-Josèphe Aimée Vincente Bourron, born November 5, 1931 in Grenoble and died July 2, 2012 in Paris is a French sculptor. She married in 1946 and then moved from Grenoble in 1957 with her husband and two children to Tarbes, Bordeaux and then Paris. Her friend François Soubeyran — one of the four members of the Jacques brothers — was a singer but also a potter and introduced her to working with clay. Marie-Jo Bourron enrolled in evening classes at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1968.
Very quickly, she worked with clay, marble and bronze and exhibited for the first time in 1974 in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants. She exhibited practically every year in France but also in the United States, Germany and Switzerland, both individually and in groups, notably in 1988 in Chicago as a duo, at the Jacques Baruch gallery with the photographer Lucien Clergue and the painter Sacha Chimkevitch on the theme of jazz. Her first favourite themes were portraits and nudes. They will make a foray into music under the influence of her companion, Sacha Chimkevitch, the "painter of Jazz". However, it is always the living body, especially that of the woman, that she will favor, even transforming it into a siren, a mythological idealization of feminine sensuality.
The artist from Grenoble has won many awards and received the silver medal from the city of Paris in 1972. In 1979, she was awarded the honorable mention for French artists. This was followed by first prizes for sculpture in various salons between 1985 and 1991: those of Marine, Gisors, Soisy, Châtellerault, Vittel and Trouville. In 1989, she was awarded the Washington Sculpture Prize, where her success was considerable. Building on her success, Marie-Jo Bourron won various commissions. She thus created for the city of Paris five monumental sculptures for the Montparnasse tower in plaster and concrete (now disappeared) and for the Méridien hotel a bust of Lionel Hampton, famous Jazzman. She also sculpted for the cities of Penne-d'Agenais, Charenton, as well as within the framework of the Jazz festival of the TBB of Boulogne-sur-Seine for which she created a bronze sculpture which will be on the official poster.
To respond to the order of a Parisian company, she delivered a monumental bronze sculpture in the image of Baron Haussmann which is still exhibited at the headquarters of the company.

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