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Reclining Lion Sculpture

$18,500List Price

About the Item

Josuë Dupon was a very talented and productive artist. His oeuvre includes sculpting (sculptures and medals), painting and graphic work. Although he didn’t have the ambition to become an innovator, he was familiar with all every genre and he mastered every technique and material. He was one of the first artists that started in 1893 to carve ivory (in combination with gold and other materials): his Diana (1897) was bought by the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp). He was an animalier pur-sang who was inspired by almost any animal species and he had the talent to capture their specific anatomy as well as their character. It’s the proof that Dupon was a truly realist who’s technical perfect art together with his dramatic feeling, sense for decorative complexity and slight tendency for idealizing, matched completely with the 19th century view on art. Thanks to his elder brother Karel, Josuë Dupon started at first in the studios of the neo-Gothic sculptor and painter Clemens Carbon (1835-1907) and Modest Verlinden in Roeselare. He followed evening courses at the academy in Roeselare and Antwerp (1884-1885; under Jozef Geefs (1808-1885) and Jacob De Braekeleer (1823-1906)). After finishing successfully his studies (1885-1887) at the Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (NHISKA) under Thomas Vinçotte (1850-1925), he obtained at the Salon in Antwerp a first golden medal with his bronze group Samson doodt de leeuw (Samson kills the lion) in 1891, as well as the second prize sculpting in the Prix de Rome. From that year on, his work was exhibited on a regular base at national and international exhibitions. Dupon was also member of several art societies: the Roeselaarse Kunstkring (1888), founded by his brother Karel, and De Scalden, a group of young painters, sculptors and architects in Antwerp who laid the base for L’Art appliqué. After the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp) bought his spectacular bronze group Gier die zijn prooi verdedigt (Vulture defending his prey), the artist really started to built a career. He received official commissions for monuments and façade sculptures, obtained several important awards and was appointed as professor at the Antwerp academy. The animalier Albéric Collin (1886-1962), the modernist sculptor Willy Kreitz (1903-1982) and figurative sculptor Albert Poels (1903-1984) – who became very well-known artists – studied under him. He was a member of the board of the Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts. Dupon became a well respected and reputed authority who’s work stood for high quality. His reputation as animalier was confirmed when his bronze Kameeldrijver (Camel driver) in 1901 and two bronze groups in 1903 were installed at the entrance of the Antwerp Zoo. His studio De Reiger (The Heron) in the Gulden Vlieslaan in Berchem (Antwerp) remained untouched until his daughter’s death in 1986. 1909. Brown patinated bronze. Signed and dated on base left at the back on base Josuë Dupon 1909. On the right side of the base the foundry name Fonderie natle des bronzes anc. Firme j. Petermann St gilles - bruxelles. Bronze: H. ca. 20 cm, W. 43,50 cm, D. 21 cm Museums: Antwerp, Brussels, Bucharest. Sources: Bénézit, E. (vol. 4) (1999), Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d’écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers, Paris: Éditions Gründ, p. 879; Denys, L., & Verbraeken, P. (eds) (1990), Rembrandt Bugatti en de Belgische dierensculptuur 1860-1930 (exh. cat.), Hessenhuis, Antwerp: Stad Antwerpen, p. 115-125, 217-218; Engelen-Marx (vol. 3) (2006), La sculpture en Belgique à partir de 1830, Leuven: Imprimerie Van der Poorten, p. 1394-1401; Pas, W. & G. (vol. 1) (2000), ARTO 2000 Biografisch Lexicon Plastische Kunst in België. Schilders Beeldhouwers Grafici 1830-2000, Antwerp: De Gulden Roos, p. 345-346; 150 Jaar Monumentale Animaliersculptuur – ZOO Antwerpen 3 juli – 12 september 1993 (1993) (exh. cat.), Antwerp: Esco, p. 18-23, p. 90-91 and p. 157.

Creator:
Josue Dupon (Sculptor)
Dimensions:
Height: 7.87 in (19.99 cm)Width: 17.13 in (43.52 cm)Depth: 8.27 in (21.01 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze,Patinated
Place of Origin:
Belgium
Period:
1900-1909
Date of Manufacture:
1909
Condition:
Seller Location:
Brussels & Antwerp, BE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU95165693743

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