Heuwelmans Lucienne 1881-1944 Madonna And Child Chryselephantine

HEUVELMANS LUCIENNE (1881-1944): MADONNA AND CHILD, CIRCA 1930/40. SCULPTURE IN MAHOGANY AND IVORY, SIGNED Height 33 cm Lucienne Heuvelmans is the daughter of Osval Heuvelmans, draftsman and cabinetmaker from Ath3 and Donatilde Sandras, milliner from Leuze-en-Hainaut. These two towns in Belgian Hainaut also preserve works by the artist: a bronze Christ in the Ath History and Archeology Museum and a Pax Armata on the Leuze War Memorial. After taking evening sculpture classes and passing through the girls' section of the National School of Decorative Arts (where she entered in October 1897), she was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1904 where she became pupil of the sculptors Laurent Marqueste (1848-1920), Emmanuel Hannaux (1855-1934) and Denys Puech (1854-1942). She was, in July 1911, the first woman to obtain a Grand Prix de Rome (in sculpture) with the subject Oreste endormi, after having been first second Grand Prix in 1910. Admitted to the Villa Médicis4, she stayed there from January 1912 to December 1914 under the direction of Albert Besnard. The competition had been open to women since 1903. On her return to France, she was appointed drawing teacher in the schools of the City of Paris. She set up her studio on the ground floor and on the entresol of 17, rue des Tournelles in the rear wing of the Hôtel de Rohan-Guémené, whose main facade overlooks the Place des Vosges. She regularly participated in exhibitions at the Salon des artistes français where she obtained an honorable mention in 1907, then a bronze medal in 1921, as well as at the Salon des artistes décorateurs at the Grand Palais between 1926 and 1933. From 1924 to 1926, she honored orders for the Sèvres factory ...... I am at your disposal for any further information Shipping by registered colissimo 25 euros for France