Large Bronze XIX ème, 80cm, Jef Lambeaux, Musée G. COURBET, Les lutteurs

Large Bronze XIX ème, Jef Lambeaux, Musée G. COURBET, The wrestlers

Galerie Artableaux is a partner of the Museums;
return to the gallery of this monumental bronze, after its exhibition at the
Musée Gustave COURBET, Besançon, "Les Colosses" which took place during the 2024 Olympic Games.

Period: 19th century

Signed: signed in the bronze, artist referenced and side,
Exceptional lost-wax bronze
bronze in perfect condition.

History: Museum piece, Exhibited at the Musée Gustave Courbet during the 2024 Olympic Games.
Subject: Wrestlers
Dimensions : Width 80 cm - Height 70 cm - Depth : 45 cm - Weight : 50 Kg approx.

Biography :
Joseph Marie Thomas LAMBEAUX VAN ANTWERPEN known as Jef LAMBEAUX 1852 / 1908
Jef Joseph Marie Thomas Lambeaux, born in Antwerp on January 14, 1852 and died in Brussels on June 5, 1908, was a Belgian sculptor. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He was the brother of Jules Lambeaux.
In 1883, Jef Lambeaux was a founding member of the Brussels avant-garde group Les Vingt.
He studied with Joseph Geefs and at the Académie d'Anvers. His studio was located on rue de Savoie (destroyed in 1898), then at no. 104 rue Antoine Bréart (destroyed in 1977) in Saint-Gilles (Brussels).
He won a medal for his debut in 1881 and a gold medal at the Brussels exhibition.
His work Le Faune mordu was shown at the Brussels (1897) and Paris (1900) World Fairs, but was at the center of a nude controversy at the 1905 World Fair in Liège, where it was covered by a veil.
He was considered one of the apostles of realist sculpture among Belgian artists of the 19th century, with creations born of his tormented genius.
A great fan of the circus and a man of the people, Jef Lambeaux never lost his childlike wonder at the spectacle of wrestlers, boxers and other bodybuilders who used to perform in the squares. Sander Pierron reports: "In winter, you can meet Lambeaux every evening at the circus.
In summer, in July and August, you're sure to find him in the front row of spectators at the athletic arenas of the boulevard du Midi fair." It was here that Lambeaux drew the inspiration for his powerful sculptural groups expressing the effort, pain and emotions of combat. Jef Lambeaux could not fail to be seduced by the muscular phenomenon Eugen Sandow.
Another major work: Les Passions humaines (1886), a marble bas-relief that was incorporated into Victor Horta's pavilion in the Parc du Cinquantenaire, for which he received a medal of honor at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
He was made a member of the Académie royale de Belgique in 1903. Since 1899, the relief of Les Passions humaines has been the subject of both praise and criticism.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of Leopold and the Order of Bavaria.
Source Bénézit , Source Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs - Les Bronzes du XIX° (in French)

Museums :
Numerous museums hold works by this sculptor.
Musée Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique - La Lutte bronze group 240 x 167 x 130 cm
Musée d'Ixelles: Lutteurs (or Olympians) dated 1895
Musée d'Anvers: Les lutteurs, etc.
Museum of Ghent,
etc.

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