Josuë Dupon (Belgian, 1864-1935) Sculpture for Three Day Eve...

Hammer

£400

Josuë Dupon (Belgian, 1864-1935)
Sculpture for Three Day Event of the 1936 Olympics
Three bronze plaques, each signed JD

Born in Ichteghem, Dupon studied at the ‘Institut Superieur’ in Antwerp as a student of Thomas Vincotte. He was awarded second prize in the Prix de Rome in 1891 and later elected Professor at the ‘Academie Royale’, Antwerp. Dupon was popular with the Belgian Court and undertook a number of commissions in mixed media sculpture (ivory, bronze, wood and marble), which were in great demand at the turn of the 20th century. However, Dupon was the hub for the sculptors working at the Antwerp Zoo. Animals dying in the zoo were removed to his studio for study and dissection by the sculptors. One of these sculptors was Rembrandt Bugatti, who was, while in Antwerp, more or less itinerant, often working in the open air modelling direct from the various animals in the Zoo. Other pupils took inspiration from Dupon’s work. His sculpture of ‘Vulture Swooping on its Prey’ in the Antwerp Museum in turn inspired his pupil Scutter.

Literature:
Jacques Van Lennep, Catalogue de La Sculpture, Artistes Nes Entre 1750 – 1882, p.169; Rembrandt Bugatti, En de Belgische Dierensculptuur 1860-1930, Hessenhuis Antwerpen, p. 115-125; Christopher Payne, Animals in Bronze, p. 403

Dimensions:
30 in. (L) (overall)