Roger Favin, The Face Of A Young African Woman

Roger FAVIN (1904–1990)

The son of Louis Joseph Favin, a sculptor, and Augustine Lucie Legrand, Roger FAVIN was born on July 15, 1904, in Deauville.
He was the ninth of ten children.

He claimed never to have attended art school, and it is very likely that his father taught him the craft.
The family moved to Paris around 1907–1908.

Roger Favin exhibited for the first time at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1928. There he presented three busts, including one of his mother. He participated regularly in the exhibition. He became an associate member of the Société nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1932 and a full member in 1933.

He received the Henri Gsell and Isidore Paquin prizes.

This sculptor created numerous sculptures, often in wood, but also cast in bronze or terracotta. Depictions of African figures feature prominently in his work.

Very few of his works are dated, and often there is no indication of the foundry.

He died in Paris at the age of 85 on April 14, 1990.