Portrait Of A Woman - Jean Joachim (1905-1990)

A very beautiful bronze bust with old gilt patina
Cast by GODARD
Standing on a wooden base

France
Circa 1940
height 48 cm

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Biography:
Jean Joachim Supéry (1905-1990) known as Jean Joachim, was a French sculptor. He learned direct carving in the studio of his father Joseph-Louis Supéry, himself a sculptor, then at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Practitioner of François Pompon, Jean Joachim sculpted his famous "Polar Bear" in Lens stone, commissioned by the State in 1927.

Jean Joachim received several public commissions, and in particular produced a monumental sculpture for the Notre-Dame institution in Malakoff. He participated in the Salon from 1930, as well as in other exhibitions, notably with the group of animal artists and received the Edouard-Marcel Sandoz prize in 1975.

His style is more naturalistic than that of his teacher Pompon. Joachim led a career as a teacher at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués and at the Ecole des Métiers d'Art, and as a sculptor, in his studio which he shared with his brother, rue Le Planquet in Malakoff. He designed medals and female busts and of course stylized animal subjects.