20th century bronze, 46 cm, signed M.J. BOURRON, numbered 2/8, Africa

Bronze 20th century, 46 cm, signed M.J. BOURRON, numbered 2/8, Africa

Period: 20th century, dated 1999, Bronze in perfect condition, lost wax bronze.

Signed: Bourron, artist referenced and listed.
bears the stamp of the founder PAUMELLE (Marne) and the year of production 99 for 1999 and numbered 2/8

This bronze is included in the next catalogue raisonné under the number: MGG_1020, released in 2022.

Subject: "Africa"
Dimensions: 46 cm high, width: 37 cm, depth: 30 cm, 16.6 Kg

Biography:
Marie-Josèphe BOURRON 1931 / 2012
Marie-Jo Bourron, pseudonym of Marie-Josèphe Aimée Vincente Bourron, born November 5, 1931 in Grenoble and died July 2, 2012 in Paris is a French sculptor.
She married in 1946 then moved from Grenoble in 1957 with her husband and two children to Tarbes, Bordeaux then Paris.

Her friend François Soubeyran — one of the four members of the Jacques brothers — is a singer but also a potter and introduces her to working with clay.

Marie-Jo Bourron enrolled in evening classes at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1968. Very quickly, she worked with clay, marble, bronze and exhibited for the first time in 1974 in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants.

She exhibited almost every year in France but also in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, both individually and in groups, notably in 1988 in Chicago as a duo, at the Jacques Baruch gallery with the photographer Lucien Clergue and the painter Sacha Chimkevitch on the theme of jazz.

Her first favorite themes were portraits and nudes. They made a foray into music under the influence of her companion, Sacha Chimkevitch the "painter of Jazz". However, it is always the living body, especially that of the woman, that she will privilege, even transforming it into a siren, a mythological idealization of feminine sensuality.

Having won many awards, the artist from Grenoble received the silver medal from the city of Paris in 1972. In 1979, she was awarded the honorable mention for French artists. This was followed by first prizes for sculpture in various salons between 1985 and 1991: those of Marine, Gisors, Soisy, Châtellerault, Vittel and Trouville. In 1989, she was awarded the Washington Sculpture Prize where her success was considerable.

Building on her success, Marie-Jo Bourron won various commissions. For the city of Paris, she created five monumental sculptures for the Montparnasse Tower in plaster and concrete (now gone) and for the Méridien hotel a bust of Lionel Hampton, a famous Jazzman.

She also sculpts for the cities of Penne-d’Agenais, Charenton, as well as for the TBB Jazz Festival in Boulogne-sur-Seine for which she creates a bronze sculpture that will be on the official poster. To respond to an order from a Parisian company, she delivers a monumental bronze sculpture in the image of Baron Haussmann that is still exhibited at the company’s headquarters.

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Bronze visible at our gallery in L’Isle sur la Sorgue (France), on weekends.
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A1233
 

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