Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 – Besançon, 2004) - Lot 196

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Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 – Besançon, 2004) - Lot 196
Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 – Besançon, 2004) "The Beautiful Chinese Woman" (Portrait of Hinano Guilloux, a friend of the artist), 1981 Dark brown patina bronze, signed on the back, numbered 4/8 Deroyaume foundry mark H. 57 cm The model was a friend of the artist in Tahiti Provenance: the artist’s family TAHITI: In 1976, Oudot made his first trip to Tahiti for an exhibition of sixty graphic works. Soon, the artist would spend all his vacations in this newly discovered paradise. “In this country, there is a climate, a light, and a way of life that stem from its people—who are far from ordinary. And these people, through both their spirit and their physical form, are a considerable source of inspiration for an artist, especially a sculptor. “The Polynesian woman is truly the quintessential model for a sculptor,” he explained to RFO Tahiti during a 1987 interview. GEORGES OUDOT: Born in 1928 in Chaumont to a family originally from Franche-Comté that would soon settle in Besançon, Georges Oudot developed an interest in sculpture at a very early age, firing his first works in the family kitchen oven. He trained in drawing and sculpture: he was a student at the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Besançon, then entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1946, where his teachers were Alfred Janniot and Marcel Gimond. He returned to Besançon after completing his studies and set up a studio in Victor Hugo’s birthplace, where Gustave Courbet had worked before him. Portraits and nudes occupy a central place in his work. Oudot created portraits of numerous prominent figures, such as Juliette Gréco, Grace of Monaco, Claude Pompidou (Monumental Bronze Bust, 1971), and Pierre Mendès France… Several of his sculptures are featured in the Besançon landscape, such as *Le Prophète/Le Témoin* at the Memorial to the Resistance and Deportation, a *Marianne* (1965) at City Hall, the statue of Proud’hon on Rue du Général Sarrail, the monumental *Messagère de l’esprit* (commissioned by the government in 1961) at the Lycée Montjoux and *La Main et l’Esprit* (1966) at the Lycée Pergaud, and *L’Enfant et l’Univers* (now housed in Pirey). Throughout his career, Georges Oudot participated in numerous exhibitions and art fairs (more than 250) throughout France, as well as in Europe and the United States: in addition to group exhibitions, no fewer than thirty solo exhibitions were dedicated to him, beginning in 1950 (including one at the Findlay Gallery in New York in 1959, five in Tahiti starting in 1976, one at the Art Forum in Monaco in 1979, etc.) In 1960, he was the only sculptor invited to the exhibition “Triomphe du Figuratif” at the Galerie Gaveau in Paris, where his works were displayed alongside those of Picasso, Braque, Gromaire, and Lorjou. In 1966, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris purchased a 90-cm bronze sculpture from him (L’Hiver, 1964). His works are held in private collections around the world, including Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia, as well as in public collections, notably in Paris (Musée d’Art moderne), Besançon, Belfort, Poitiers, Strasbourg, Valence, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), etc.
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