Floor Lamp The Singing Rooster By Jean Touret Les Marolles

Wrought iron floor lamp with rooster from the Marolle workshops dimension with lampshade 1m65 without 1m37. tripod feet pattern (the singing rooster) from the 50s photos of this avant-garde sculptor. Jean Touret is a French sculptor whose work, mainly religious, uses wood and metals to create sometimes monumental sculptures (statuaries, altars, organ cases). His art, which remains figurative but bordering on abstraction, coincides with the movement back towards liturgical simplicity that Vatican II provokes. In the 1960s he met Jean-Marie Lustiger, then student chaplain, who entrusted him with several achievements when he successively became parish priest of Sainte Jeanne de Chantal (Paris 16th), bishop of Orléans and archbishop of Paris. The documentary Touret-Lustiger, in the mirror of a friendship traces this human and spiritual encounter Jean Touret is also known as a designer. At the start of his career, in Loir-et-Cher, he set up an artisanal cooperative “les Artisans de Marolles” of which he was the artistic director. During the 1950s and 1960s, they produced furniture that we are rediscovering today. With his wife Odile, they have 7 children, including Sébastien Touret, also a sculptor, with whom he worked from the 1950s