Bronze By Octavio Vicent (1913–1999), *la Baigneuse*, Lost-wax Bronze.

Period: 20th century, bronze with a very beautiful brown patina, in very good condition

Signed: Octavio Vicent, No. 6 / 197, and the foundry’s stamp (illegible); artist listed in reference works,

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Subject: Bather, lost-wax bronze, on a marble base.

Dimensions: height: 32 cm, width: 12 cm, depth: 21 cm. – 8.5 kg.

Biography:

Octavio VICENT 1914 / 1999

Salvador Octavio Vicent Cortina was born on December 25, 1913, in Valencia, and died on October 20, 1999, in Valencia. Spanish School – Sculptor

Son of the sculptor Carmelo Vicent.

In 1930, he enrolled at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, and in 1935, he was awarded the Piquer Scholarship from that institution, which enabled him to continue his academic studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, in which he fought as a soldier, he returned to his native Valencia.

In 1945, he won third prize at the National Fine Arts Exhibition with a work depicting the martyr Saint Sebastian. In 1947, he won the chair of life drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos through a competitive examination, and in 1948 he won the second medal at the Madrid Fine Arts Exhibition with two reliefs, “La música profana” and “La música religiosa”

He won first prize in Mediterranean sculpture in Alicante in 1957. In 1958, he received the National Sculpture Prize, and in 1959, the Guadalquivir Prize in Seville

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Bronze on view at our gallery in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (France) on weekends.

Free shipping within France.

Shipping to other countries available upon request

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