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Charles Despiau (November 4, 1874 – October 28, 1946) was a French sculptor.

Early life

Charles-Albert Despiau was born at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes and attended first the École des Arts Décoratifs and later the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, from 1898 to 1900; then at the less academic Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he showed from 1901 to 1921, and finally to the Salon des Tuileries, where he exhibited from 1923 to 1944.

Career

Rodin hired him as an assistant in 1907. Despiau worked with Rodin, as well as doing his own sculpture, until 1914, when he was drafted for service in the camouflage unit in World War I.

Returning to sculpture after the war, his success was established with his one-man show at the Brummer Gallery in New York in late 1927. He died in Paris in 1946.

Despiau was not a prolific sculptor, preferring to work for as long as it took to realize his vision. There are several surviving plaster statues which repeat a model with only slight variations.

His works, mostly portraits and nudes exemplifying a calm classicism, are in the collections of over thirty museums in France and over 100 museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1] The Museum of Modern Art in New York owns the bronze Assia, perhaps his best-known work.

The largest collection is in his native Mont-de-Marsan, in a museum he shares with Robert Wlérick, established in the Donjon Lacataye. Despiau produced a total of 150 sculptures and 1,000 drawings over a fifty-year career.

References

External links

• Despiau at www.ilovefiguresculpture.com (Web gallery of 20th Century figure sculpture)
• Charles Despiau website
• Charles Despiau in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

На других языках

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[de] Charles Despiau

Charles Despiau (* 4. November 1874 in Mont-de-Marsan; † 28. Oktober 1946 in Paris) war ein französischer Bildhauer, der vor allem als Porträtbildhauer geschätzt war und neben Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol und Antoine Bourdelle zu den tonangebenden Bildhauern des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts wurde.

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- [en] Charles Despiau

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[es] Charles Despiau

Charles Despiau (Mont-de-Marsan, 4 de noviembre de 1874 - 30 de octubre de 1946), fue un escultor francés.

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[fr] Charles Despiau

Charles Despiau né le 4 novembre 1874 à Mont-de-Marsan et mort le 28 octobre 1946 à Paris est un sculpteur français.

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[it] Charles Despiau

Charles Despiau (Mont-de-Marsan, 4 novembre 1874 – 30 ottobre 1946) è stato uno scultore francese.

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[ru] Деспио, Шарль

Шарль Деспио́ (фр. Charles Despiau; 4 ноября 1874, Мон-де-Марсан ― 28 октября 1946, Париж) ― французский скульптор, один из крупнейших портретистов XX века.

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