Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 - Besançon, 2004) - Lot 199

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Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 - Besançon, 2004) - Lot 199
Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 - Besançon, 2004) View of Moorea in the Evening (or Le Soir à Moorea), Tahiti, 1980 Charcoal and white chalk on paper, signed, located, dated and titled lower right, and titled on the back. 50 x 75 cm Unframed Provenance: Artist's family TAHITI : In 1976, Oudot made his first trip to Tahiti, for an exhibition of sixty graphic works. Soon the artist was spending all his vacations in this new-found Eden. "In this country, there is a climate, a light, a way of life due to inhabitants who are not ordinary. And people whose state of mind as well as their form are a considerable source of inspiration for an artist, especially a sculptor. The Polynesian woman is truly the ideal model for a sculptor", he explained to RFO Tahiti during a report in 1987. GEORGES OUDOT : Born in Chaumont in 1928, to a family of Franc-Comtoise origin who soon moved to Besançon, Georges Oudot took an early interest in sculpture, baking his first works in the family kitchen oven. He studied drawing and sculpture at the municipal Beaux-Arts school in Besançon, before entering the Beaux-Arts school in Paris in 1946, where his teachers included Alfred Janniot and Marcel Gimond. He returned to Besançon after his studies and took up a studio in Victor Hugo's birthplace, where Gustave Courbet had worked before him. Portraits and nudes play a major role in his work. Oudot portrayed numerous personalities, including Juliette Gréco, Grace de Monaco, Claude Pompidou (monumental bronze bust, 1971), Pierre Mendès France... Several of his sculptures can be seen in the Bisontin landscape, including Le Prophète/Le Témoin at the Mémorial de la Résistance et de la Déportation, a Marianne (1965) at the town hall, the statue of Proud'hon on rue du Général Sarrail, the monumental Messagère de l'esprit (commissioned by the State in 1961) at Lycée Montjoux and La Main et l'Esprit (1966) at Lycée Pergaud, and L'Enfant et l'Univers (now preserved in Pirey). Throughout his career, Georges Oudot took part in numerous exhibitions and salons (over 250) throughout France, as well as in Europe and the United States: in addition to group shows, no fewer than thirty private exhibitions were devoted to him, from 1950 onwards (including one at the Findlay Gallery in New York in 1959, five in Tahiti from 1976, one at the Art Forum in Monaco in 1979, etc.). In 1960, he was the only sculptor invited to the "Triomphe du Figuratif" exhibition at the Galerie Gaveau in Paris, where his works rubbed shoulders with those of Picasso, Braque, Gromaire and Lorjou. In 1966, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris bought him a 90 cm bronze sculpture (L'Hiver, 1964). His works are held in private collections around the world, as far afield as Japan, Hong Kong and Australia, and in public collections in Paris (Musée d'Art Moderne), Besançon, Belfort, Poitiers, Strasbourg, Valence, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and elsewhere.
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