Lot n° 121
Estimation :
12000 - 15000
EUR
Jean FREOUR (1919-2010) - Lot 121
Jean FREOUR (1919-2010)
Young girl with parchment
Large original direct-cut oak sculpture, made by the artist from the studio plaster.
Signed on the base
Cracks in the wood at the bottom of the sculpture.
Height 76 cm
Jean Fréour has developed a unique body of work, both religious and secular, but often built around a totem - the female body. Our sculpture illustrates this powerfully, the youthfulness of the model is transcribed with great modesty and delicacy, and the sculptor's accuracy is articulately displayed in the braids falling over the head.
in the braids falling over the shoulders and the way the large parchment is held in place.
Note from the Scientific Committee:
The status of childhood mabinog in Welsh was created on November 30, 1942.
Indeed, most of the Seizh Breur present at this AGM criticized Creston for his uncoordinated recruitment. The transition from mabinog to Seizh Breur should therefore be subject to a formal vote. Jean Fréour was made a mabinog on January 30, 1944, along with Dorrick Levoyer and Anne de Buzonnière de Tourville. They were never confirmed, as there were no more AGMs before the Liberation, and afterwards, the three AGMs that were convened (October 24, 1946, June 30, 1947, July 26, 1948) failed to reach a quorum.
quorum. But previous mabinogs Raphaël Tullou and René-Théophile Salaün had been made Seizh Breur without a hitch, and Fréour certainly would have been. He is therefore considered fully Seizh Breur.
Daniel Le Couédic
Bibliography:
- Daniel Le Couédic and Jean-Yves Veillard (dir.), Ar Seiz
Breur 1923-1947, la création bretonne entre tradition et
modernity , ed. Terre de Brume - musée de Bretagne,
2000.
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