Paul Landowski (1875-1961) - "water Carrier"

Bronze proof with a shaded brown patina on a green background after the original model from 1905. 2nd version, heel of the left foot brushing the terrace. Signed A; Landowski on the back, on the terrace Cast by the artist around 1905/1910 Dimensions: Height: 37 cm Length: 13 cm – Depth: 16 cm This sculpture was made from scenes observed during his trip to Tunisia Bibliography: Identical model listed in the work “Landowski” by B. Foucart, M. Lefrançois and G. Caillet, page 76 Biography: Paul LANDOWSKI (1875-1961) Student at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris where his teacher was Barrias who gave him a sense of the monumental. Prix de Rome in 1900 for “David Combattant”. 1901: left for Rome and settled at the Villa Medici. 1903: Travels to Tunisia with his friend Henri Bouchard. There he stocks up on notes and sketchbooks that he will use throughout his life. From 1933 to 1937, he directed the Académie de France in Rome, then was appointed Director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The whole world commissioned him: Paris commissioned the image of its patron saint, St. Genevieve, which takes its place at the bedside of Notre-Dame, Rio de Janeiro and its Christ of Corcovado, China and the mausoleum of Sun Yat-Sen, England, Switzerland ….. He died in his house in Boulogne Billancourt on March 31, 1961, at the age of 85 Galerie Paris-Manaus