Marcel Gaumont

Marcel Gaumont (27 January 1880, Tours—20 November 1962, Paris) was a French sculptor.

Biography

Gaumont was a pupil at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied under Louis-Ernest Barrias, François-Léon Sicard and Jules Coutan.^{[citation needed]} He submitted Figure modelée d'après l'antique to the school's 1900 competition for a "figure modelée" in the classical mode. While a student, he also made Psyché, a marble Ronde-bosse. He was the joint winner of the 1908 Prix de Rome for his plaster composition Le jeune Sophocle après la victoire de Salamine, along with Camille Crenier, and this took him to Rome's Villa Médicis from 1909 to 1912.^{[citation needed]} Salamine is kept in the archives at the École nationale. From 1920 onwards Gaumont often collaborated with Manufacture nationale de Sèvres.^{[citation needed]} One such work in "biscuit de porcelaine" was called "Petit coursier". Other works with Sèvres include Joueuses de Boules, La mort de Narcisse, Samson et Dalila, Le sommeil, Enfants a la flèche and L'amour Endormi.^{[citation needed]}

He exhibited regularly at the Société des Artistes Français and in 1935 won their gold medal. In 1937 his four Metopes won the major prize at the Exposition internationale de Paris. These works had decorated the western façade of the Palais de Tokyo at that exhibition. In 1938 he was made an officer of the "Légion d'honneur". In 1939 he became professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1944 he was elected to the French Académie des Beaux-Arts taking the chair vacated by Paul Gasq.^{[citation needed]}

Selected works

References

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External links

• "BnF catalogue général - Notice d'autorité personne". catalogue.bnf.fr. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
• "Gaumont, Marcel (1880-1962) - Notice documentaire IdRef". idref.fr. Retrieved 30 October 2014.