Hubert Yencesse

Q: When did Hubert Yencesse die?

Hubert Yencesse died on October 4, 1987 in 7th arrondissement of Paris.

Q: How old was Hubert Yencesse when they died?

Hubert Yencesse was 87 years old at the time of death.

Q: When was Hubert Yencesse born?

Hubert Yencesse was born on April 28, 1900 in 6th arrondissement of Paris.

Q: What was Hubert Yencesse's occupation?

Hubert Yencesse was a sculptor.

Hubert Yencesse (28 April 1900 – 4 October 1987) was a French sculptor. He secured 3rd place (Bronze Medal) in the Art Olympics of the year 1948 for his sculpture Swimmer. His first exhibition was in the year 1921 at the Salon d'Automne, and in the year 1934 he received the Blumenthal prize.

Early life

Hubert Yencesse was born in Paris on 28 April 1900, and entered the school of Fine Arts in Dijon in 1919. His father, the medallist Ovice Yencesse taught in the same school. Because of this, he met the sculptor François Pompon and became his pupil.

He was the father of the sculptor Dodie Yencesse, and the brother of the sculptor Jacques Yencesse. His wife Cécile Chambelland died in 1999.

Career

Yencesse exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in 1921 and received the Blumenthal Prize [fr] in 1934. A little earlier, he was called upon to sculpt the left profile of aviator Georges Guynemer, with a view to making a bronze intended to decorate the facade of a monument erected on the military airfield of Ouges-Longvic in memory of the ace of war (monument inaugurated on 25 July 1932).

The purse associated with the prize allows him to settle in his Parisian workshop. He met Aristide Maillol, of which he became a disciple and collaborator until 1936. Like Maillol, Yencesse devoted himself entirely to the representation of the female body. He exhibited in Paris at the Petit Palais in 1935, at the Salon des Tuileries and participated in exhibitions of French sculpture in Amsterdam, Brussels, etc. He also obtained numerous public commissions: he participated in the decorations of the Palais de Chaillot in 1937, produced decorations for the University of Dijon in 1957, sculpted a War Memorial in Belfort in 1948. In 1953, he produced a new Monument to the dead for the city of Le Neubourg (Eure), replacing the old monument sculpted by Paul Landowski destroyed during the war.

He taught at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1950 to 1970 (César succeeded him). During these years, he assiduously frequented, charcoal in hand, the dance studios. He finds his art renewed by this influence: The study of dance, he writes, distances the sculptor from conventional and often worn plastic research; he discovers that a volume from the inside, bursting into space, has total plastic value.

In 1972, the Rodin museum in Paris devoted a retrospective to him.

He was received as a member of the Institute on 20 March 1974, at the headquarters of Henri Navarre in the sculpture section of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Yencesse died in Dijon, Paris on 4 October 1987, at the age of 87.

Work

Reclining woman, circa 1935, plaster, Paris, museum of modern art of the City of Paris
Woman with the shell, 1937, bronze, Toulouse, National Veterinary School of Toulouse
Flore, 1937, stone, Barentin, Hôtel de Ville
Head of a young woman, 1937, bronze, Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick
Bust of a woman, before 1939, bronze, Boulogne-Billancourt, museum of the Thirties
Bust of a young woman or Mademoiselle B., 1942, bronze, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts
La Musique, 1943, stone, current location unknown, formerly in Chartres, town hall
Tourville, 1943, pierre, Coutances, town hall
Diane et son arc, vers 1943, plaster, Roubaix, La Piscine, André-Diligent Museum of Art and Industry
Diane et son arc, vers 1943, bronze, Paris, museum of modern art of the City of Paris
Diane et son arc, 1943, bronze, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Bust of Paul Langevin, 1946, bronze, Paris, Rectorat d'Académie
La République, 1949, stone, Orleans
Monument to the dead, 1953, stone, Le Neubourg
The month of May 1956, stone, Fontainebleau, national castle museum
The Immaculate Conception, 1957, Laguiole, Saint-Matthieu church
Rock'n'Roll, 1962, bronze, The Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Rock'n'Roll, 1962, bronze, Elizabeth, South Australia
La Loire, 1980, bronze, Orléans, place Sainte-Croix
Spring, Summer, Autumn, plaster, Roubaix, La Piscine, André-Diligent Museum of Art and Industry
Woman's head, gilt plaster, Strasbourg, museum of modern and contemporary art
Swimmer, bronze, Algiers, Museum of Fine Arts

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