"Allonsius Daniel Jacques (1923 - 1995) Study For Tribal Masks 1978"
ALLONSIUS Daniel Jacques, Study for Tribal Masks, Watercolor on paper, signed and dated 1978 lower left. Daniel ALLONSIUS was born in Paris in 1923. He is an artist who is a painter, sculptor, draftsman, and designer. He studied under Gimont at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1940 to 1943. In 1946, he won the Salon d'Automne prize in Paris as a sculptor for a reclining nude. He taught at the École des Arts Appliqués in Fort-de-France. A specialist in geometry, he wrote a book in 1987 entitled "Creating with a Compass."