Jacques Le Bescond (1945), Antique Marble Bust

Jacques le Bescond (1945) Antique Marble Bust Marble size: 32 x 23 x 11 cm Total size with the base: 39 cm An email from Galerie Got Paris, representing the artist will accompany the sale. The gallery recognizing the authenticity of the work through the artist. The artist told me that he created this work between 2000 and 2005. He himself chose this piece of marble in a quarry around Toulon. At that time he was making sculptures in wood and marble. Today, the majority of the sculptures he makes are in bronze and can be found in collections all over the world. Bio of the artist from Galerie Got Paris He practiced sculpture from his childhood. Very young he developed a passion for wood carving. The happy and decisive meeting with an art cabinetmaker led him to follow the Boulle school as a free auditor, where he worked on drawing and modeling. Its profession asserts itself quickly, its creation diversifies. Medieval statuary is first his favorite field, then he works in the restoration of churches, castles, the ornamentation of furniture, the carving of polychrome totems, figureheads for modern sailboats and collaborates with many great decorating architects. It is with the same passion that he approaches marble sculpture, before devoting himself to the realization of bronze sculptures for which he has kept the strength and harmony of his first direct carving works. Impressed by the marble sculptures of Mytoraï and a great admirer of the works of Zadkine, Moore or even Lynn Chadwick and Chillida, he enthusiastically explores new techniques, refusing to be locked into a unique mode of expression. If his themes of inspiration change, there remains the constant search for elegance and serenity in his work. Jacques Le BESCOND has become, over the years, a renowned sculptor who always delivers works with pure lines. Contemporary artist, Jacques Le BESCOND anchors his work in the great tradition of classical sculpture. The profile of its monumental faces evokes both the elegance of Greek antiquities and the majestic strength of the heads of Easter Island. Among his inspirational themes two are mainly highlighted: the couple is one; the other is that of a tribute to the imagination of man through a series of “book sculptures”. This imaginary, creative or contemplative that he considers as an essential treasure for the balance and the happiness of the man.