Henri Louis Bouchard, Victory of Bogota, Art Deco Bronze Sculpture, ca. 1925

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French Art Deco

Henri Louis Bouchard

Victory of Bogota

France, ca. 1925  

ABOUT ‘VICTORY OF BOGOTA

Henri Louis Bouchard was an important French Romantic sculptor, known for works commemorating heroic moments in the history of his native Burgundy, as well as for his pieces focused on idyllic subjects. Around 1910-1913, he turned to a decorative style, more stripped down and purer, seeking stylization. During that time his art becomes sensibly rhythmic, and extremely decorative. He also received numerous commissions for monumental works and reliefs. In 1922, the sculptor created a ‘Head of Victory’ in plaster, which appeared at the Salon d'Automne of that same year and became somewhat a symbol of the era. Bouchard used this piece again in 1925, in a large statue that he called, at the time of its creation, “Victory without destination”; which later became “Victory of Bogota”. Reminiscent of ancient Greece indeed, this figure presented without arms (about 3m high) at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1926, was ordered in bronze for the city of Bogota, Colombia. Unfortunately, the sculpture disappears in the sinking of the boat which transports it…

MARKINGS           Signed on integral base ‘H. Bouchard’

DIMENSIONS       Height: 24.5 inches            Width: 6.25 inches             Depth: 10.5 inches

CONDITION          Excellent antique condition, wear consistent with age and use.  

ABOUT SCULPTOR

Henri Louis Bouchard (French, 1875–1960) was born in Dijon, into a family of craftsmen; his father, a carpenter, took him very young to visit the town museum; the child discovers the Tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy and the work of François Rude, artist to whom he will dedicate great admiration. Wanting to cut stone, in 1889 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and took lessons from the sculptor François Dameron. In 1894, a grant from the General Council of the Côte-d'Or allowed him to go to Paris. After the School of Decorative Arts, in 1895 he entered the School of Fine Arts in the studio of Ernest Barrias and obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1901, with his relief of Oedipus and Antigone driven out of Thebes; he stayed in Rome from 1902 to 1906. On his return, the sculptor moved to Paris, participated in several exhibitions and made himself known through the great Monument of the Reformation that he produced, with Paul Landowski, in Geneva. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Bouchard practices all genres: the portrait, the human figure (peasants, winegrowers, workers ...), the animal figure and monumental sculpture, such as the group of Apollondu Palais de Chaillot in Paris (1937). Professor at the School of Decorative Arts in 1928, then professor-head of workshop at the School of Fine Arts from 1929 to 1945, the artist was elected to the Institute (Academy of Fine Arts) in 1933. In November 1941, Bouchard was one of a number of French painters and sculptors who accepted an official invitation from Joseph Goebbels for a grand tour of Nazi Germany. Others who accepted the invitation were Charles Despiau, Paul Landowski, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, and Fauve artists Kees van Dongen, Maurice de Vlaminck, and André Derain. On his return, Bouchard had kind words about the status accorded artists in Nazi Germany. Upon Liberation, in 1944, Bouchard was suspended from his professorship, branded a collaborator and ostracized by many former supporters. He died at his Parisian home where his workshop was located, rue de l'Yvette, which would become his museum until 2007, when the studio was transferred to the new La Piscine museum in Roubaix where the whole was now on display. This sculptor knew how to keep an artistic independence which made him one of the most authentic figures of figurative sculpture of the first half of the 20th century.

WORK

·        Symbols of the four evangelists, for the campanile of Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, Paris, 1911

·        Figure of the medieval sculptor Claus Sluter, 1911

·        Statues for the Reformation Wall in Geneva, in collaboration with Paul Landowski, circa 1912.

·        Monument ‘Children of Saint-Quentin in collaboration with Paul Bigot and Paul Landowski, 1927.

·        Christ on the Cross on the facade of the church of Saint-Martin, Chauny, France, circa 1930

·        The tympanum of the church Saint Pierre de Chaillot in Paris, 1933–1935.

·        Bronze Apollo for the Jardins du Trocadéro below the Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 1937.

·        The tomb of Albert Bartholomé, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

·        The tomb of Gabriel Pierné, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

·        The tomb of Général Grossetti, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.

 

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  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: The sculpture is in excellent antique condition. Wear consistent with age and use. We make our best effort to provide a fair and descriptive condition report. Please examine photos attentively, as they are an integral part of the description. Send us a message to request more details or discuss price.
  • Size: Medium
  • Region of Origin: France
  • Artist: Henri Louis Bouchard
  • Production Technique: Bronze Casting, patina
  • Style: Art Deco
  • Item Height: 24.5
  • Item Width: 6.25
  • Material: Bronze
  • Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
  • Format: Statue
  • Type: Table/desk sculpture
  • Features: Signed
  • Subject: Women
  • Culture: Greek
  • Item Length: 10.5
  • Age: 97 years old
  • Brand: Henri Louis Bouchard
  • Year of Production: 1925
  • Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original

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