He sculpted a scene of a kneeling man lunging to suck a woman's breast in his terracotta relief, Desire, and used bronze to depict a prone woman gliding on a base with her legs and arms out horizontally in 1939's The Air.
He sculpted a scene of a kneeling man lunging to suck a woman's breast in his terracotta relief, Desire, and used bronze to depict a prone woman gliding on a base with her legs and arms out horizontally in 1939's The Air. His first major sculptural success came at age 45 with his rendition of a naked woman with her hands bound behind her back, a monument to Louis-Auguste Blanqui entitled Action in Chains. Beginning his art career as a Symbolist and Nabis painter in the style of Gauguin, this is, FTP, what French-Catalan sculptor of classical female nudes, such as his bronze stature of a crouching woman, The Mediterranean?
He sculpted a scene of a kneeling man lunging to suck a woman's breast in his terracotta relief, Desire, and used bronze to depict a prone woman gliding on a base with her legs and arms out horizontally in 1939's The Air.
Aristide {Maillol}