Bronze Octavio VICENT 1913/1999, The Bather, Lost wax bronze.

Bronze Octavio VICENT 1913/1999, The Bather, Lost wax bronze.

Period: 20th century, bronze with a very beautiful brown patina, in very good condition
Signed: Octavio Vicent, No. 6 / 197 and founder's stamp (illegible), artist referenced,
Subject: Bather, Lost wax bronze, on its marble base.
Dimensions: height: 32 cm, width: 12 cm, depth: 21 cm. – 8.5 Kg.

Biography:
Octavio VICENT 1914 / 1999
Salvador Octavio Vicent Cortina was born on December 25, 1913 in Valencia, died on October 20, 1999 in Valencia. Spanish School - Sculptor
Son of the sculptor Carmelo Vicent.
In 1930 he entered the Higher School of Painting of San Fernando and in 1935 he obtained the Piquer pension of this institution, which allowed him to continue his academic preparation at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, in which he participated as a combatant, he returned to his native Valencia. In 1945 he obtained the third medal of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts with a work that represents the martyr Saint Sebastian. In 1947 he won the chair of natural modeling at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos by competition and in 1948 he obtained the second medal of the Exhibition of Fine Arts of Madrid with two reliefs "La música profana" y la música religiosa"
He won the first prize for Mediterranean sculpture in Alicante in 1957. In 1958 he received the national sculpture prize and in 1959 the Guadalquivir prize in Seville

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