"Large Paper Cup Signed De Oudot"
Very nice paper cut signed and numbered Georges OUDOT 1928-2004 N ° 43/200 stainless steel blade and patinated bronze resin head good condition total dimensions 28cm long 7? 5 to drop maximum free shipping After studying at the school of Fine Arts Besançon, he between 1946 at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris where he is the student of Marcel Gimond and Alfred Janniot. Then he returns to Besançon where he installs his workshop. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of contemporary figurative sculpture. He is also the author of many engravings and lithographs and several medals. He has made many portraits including those of Pierre Mendes France, Edgar Faure (which he created the Academician sword), Juliette Greco, Madame Pompidou, Leon Bourgeois and the Princess Grace of Monaco. His works are presented in twenty museums including the modern art of the city of Paris, Marseille, Strasbourg, Besançon, Belfort ... and worldwide: Lausanne, Vatican, Erlangen, Freiburg, Monaco, Skopje, Tehran ... was knight of the Legion of Honor, the National Order of Merit and the Order of Arts and Letters. Georges Oudot has received numerous awards: Fénéon sculpture prize, National Arts Prize, Young Sculpture prize, Modigliani drawing prize, Biennial sculpture prize, Tribute awarded by the Critics' Prize jury for his entire artwork. Georges Oudot was the cultural advisor to Edgar Faure when he was president of the Franche-Comté region. He took part in the creation of the CRDC, regional center of cultural diffusion of which he was long the president. He created the Besançon Biennial of Fine Arts and set up the FRAC's first management committee composed of artists and craftsmen. He left these functions abruptly without setting up the bases of a good policy of acquisition of the works