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    Maurice Daurat : Orfèvre-sculpteur Art Décor

    Maurice Daurat : Orfèvre-sculpteur Art Décor


    $175.00

    • Format: Hardcover
    • pages
    • Publisher: Norma
    • Published: April 2009
    • ISBN-10: 291554221X
    • ISBN-13: 9782915542219

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    Trained at the School of Applied Arts Germain Pilon, created by the Third Republic in order to reconcile art and industry, the goldsmith Maurice Daurat combines artistic sensitivity to the simplicity of a craftsman. Just like many artists of his time, he started very young in painting, sculpture and especially drawing, inseparable from a strong and held out changing a new art inspired by nature and Japonisme in geometric stylization. Leaving in 1920 to cast chasing, Maurice Daurat interested in the tin, so despised that he will exploit the qualities with a rare talent for making unique pieces or small series, but also monumental works metal as the vessels of the liner Normandie in 1935 or vase lamp with a height of 3.12 meters for the rotunda of the Alma Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris in 1937. At the end of his life, the artist returned to sculpture with an amazing series of masks wrought copper and weathered Romanesque inspiration for some African or Asian for others. This book, in which the art historian Catherine Baumgartner, granddaughter of Maurice Daurat introduces us to the work of metal to make us better penetrate the world of the creator, makes his way to one of the most important silversmiths of his time , modest man who, like his friend François Décorchemont glass, deserved in other cultures as living the Treasury.
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