Raymond Delamarre

RAYMOND DELAMARRE (Paris, 1890-1986).
"Tors d'homme.
Plaster.
Measurements: 177 x 52 x 41 cm.
Defects in the base.
Exhibitions: "European sculpture of the 20th century", European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), Barcelona, 2014.

A student of Jules Félix Coutan (1848-1939) at the École des Beaux-Arts, he was part of the generation of fire artists. Wounded and imprisoned in Bavaria, he returned to Paris in 1919 and won the First Grand Prix de Rome with Alfred Janniot, another important sculptor of the official art of the 1930s. He participated in the international exhibitions of 1925, 1931 and 1937, with the Transatlantics venture. Together with the architect Roux Spitz, he produced a monument to the defense of the Suez Canal, numerous monuments to the dead and public decorations such as that of the Nantes hospital or the Chaillot Palace in Paris.
A monographic retrospective exhibition organized by the Taylor Foundation in 2007, in Paris, placed him in a fair position in the artistic panorama of the 20th century.