Group Terracotta Original Signed Raoul Lamourdedieu (1877 - 1953)

Terracotta group representing two nude bathers standing near a musician playing the lyre. Signed on the side of the sunken terrace "original land Raoul Lamourdedieu". Raoul Eugène Lamourdedieu (1877 - 1953) says Raoul Lamourdedieu is a French sculptor and medalist. He entered in 1894 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux. He continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the workshops of Alexandre Falguière and Alexandre Charpentier. In 1900, he produced sculptures for the decoration of the Grand Palais de Paris. First influenced by Auguste Rodin, Lamourdedieu's work then approaches the style of Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol in the tradition of the figurative tradition. In 1937, he participated in the great building of the Palais de Tokyo for which he realized a figure of bathing stone. All