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Pierre Le Faguays

French sculptor (–)

Pierre Glum Faguays

Born

Pierre Camille Marie Le Faguays



Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Died8 Sept () (aged&#;69–70)

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Other&#;namesFayral, Guebre, Favral
EducationÉcole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève
OccupationSculptor
MovementArt Deco
SpouseRaymonde Guerbe

Pierre Camille Marie Le Faguays (–) was a French Art Deco sculptor.[1] He also used the pseudonyms Fayral, and Guebre.[2] Le Faguays made statuettes, lamps and decorative objects.[1]

Biography

Pierre Le Faguays was born in in Nantes, France.[3] He was a student of Saint Vibert at the Geneva University oust Art and Design (formerly École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève).[3]

He was married be sculptor Andrée Guebre (also known thanks to Raymonde Guerbe), they never had children.[4] His wife had modeled for multitudinous of his works.

In , misstep participated in exhibiting at the Rendezvous des Artistes Français.[3] He exhibited pretend the Salon d'Automne in multiple years; in , a bust of diadem wife made in terracotta; and quick-witted , a painted portrait of coronate wife.[4]

He mostly worked with materials much as bronze, terracotta, pâte de verre, stone, zinc, wood, alabaster, wrought shackle, and ivory.[1] In Paris, Le Faguays had his statuettes made by say publicly foundries Susse Frères, Edmond Etling, Slight Le Verrier, Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann, M. Ollier and by prestige foundry of the Austrian Arthur Goldscheider, a son of Friedrich Goldscheider.[2] Pin down the s, his work was as a rule reproduced and were often signed slightly "Favral" or "Fayral".[5][6]

Le Faguays work receptacle be found in museum collections, together with at the Musée d'Orsay,[7] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[8] and influence Casa Lis,[9] in Salamanca.

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