Glazed stoneware
Height: 44" - Width: 65" - Depth: 3.75"
Francois-Emile Popineau (1887-1951) (sculptor) with Maurice Dhomme (1882-1975) & Alain Courmont (XIX-XXth) ceramicists in Allonne, France)
François-Emile Popineau exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1912. In 1922 and 1924, he won prestigious sculpture competitions that awarded travel grants to their winners. This allowed him to embark on study trips to North Africa, where he drew inspiration for his most famous sculpture: Messaouda, Oriental Dancer of 1926. Specializing in female figures, he was awarded a gold medal at the 1925 Paris International Exhibition and the Puvis de Chavannes Prize in 1937.
Maurice Dhomme trained in the workshop of the ceramist Auguste Delaherche and exhibited for the first time at Parisian salons in 1913. The Ateliers d'Art Sacré, founded in 1919 by the painter Maurice Denis, quickly sought him out for religious ceramic decorations. He created the four angel-columns at the porch of the church in the Village Français at the 1925 Paris International Exhibition and the facade of the Pontifical Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exhibition.
Exhibited:
Salon d’Automne 1927. Same panel models, one in stoneware #1760, the other in plaster #1761 exhibited during this show.
