Bronze Octavio Vicent 1913/1999, The Bather, Lost Wax Bronze.

Period: 20th century, bronze with a beautiful brown patina, in very good condition.
Signed: Octavio Vicent, No. 6/197 and founder's stamp (illegible), listed artist.
Subject: Bather, lost-wax bronze, on its marble base.
Dimensions: Height: 32 cm, Width: 12 cm, Depth: 21 cm. – 8.5 kg.

Biography:
Octavio VICENT 1914 / 1999
Salvador Octavio Vicent Cortina was born on December 25, 1913, in Valencia, and died on October 20, 1999, in Valencia. Spanish School - Sculptor
Son of the sculptor Carmelo Vicent. In 1930, he entered the San Fernando School of Painting and in 1935, he was awarded the Piquer Pension by this institution, which allowed him to continue his academic studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, in which he participated as a combatant, he returned to his native Valencia. In 1945, he was awarded the third medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts with a work depicting the martyr Saint Sebastian. In 1947, he won the chair of natural modeling at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos through a competitive examination, and in 1948 he received second place at the Madrid Fine Arts Exhibition with two reliefs, "La música profana" y la música religiosa."
He won first prize for Mediterranean sculpture in Alicante in 1957. In 1958, he received the National Sculpture Prize, and in 1959, the Guadalquivir Prize in Seville.

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Bronze on view at our gallery in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (France), on weekends.
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