Marie-Jo BOURRON, "Dream", Bronze

Sculpture by Marie-Josèphe BOURRON (1931-2021), “Dream,” Bronze - Seated Nude Woman.
Signed “MJ BOURRON, 2/8,” scallop foundry hallmark “f.e.” and number “389.”
H 27 cm. W 33 cm. D 17 cm. Good condition, beautiful patina. Ref: 305206VSP
This “Dream” sculpture appears in Marie-Josèphe Bourron’s book “Sortilège et matière,” p. 192. According to the artist’s archives, the original clay was cast in September 1999, in fine pink earth.
Eight originals were cast, numbered 1 to 8, and four artist’s proofs. Cast in Coubertin, in the Saint-Jacques workshops, a renowned foundry. The founder’s stamp reveals a scallop shell. Here we have no. 2/8.
The number 389 is the inventory number of the original and the subsequent prints, given by MJB and carefully noted in his notebooks.
We have another work for sale by this artist on this site, and one of the photos below brings the two works together.
Marie-Jo Bourron is a French sculptor who lived at 13 Quai de la Monnaie in Bordeaux between 1962 and 1965. Her friend François Soubeyran, one of the four members of the Frères Jacques, a singer but also a potter, introduced her to working with clay.
Marie-Jo Bourron enrolled in evening classes at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1968, where she studied under Étienne-Martin from 1972 to 1978, acquiring mastery of modeling and the secrets of casting. In Cardot's studio, she trained in stonework, and with Perrin in metal. She exhibited for the first time in 1974 at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants in Paris. She subsequently garnered numerous awards and exhibited virtually every year in France, as well as in the United States, Germany, and Switzerland, both individually and in groups, notably in 1988 in Chicago as a duo at the Jacques Baruch Gallery with photographer Lucien Clergue and painter Sacha Chimkevitch.
Drawing on Rodin's gestures and mastery, Marie-Jo Bourron worked with a freedom and modernity of expression that gave her work a unique character. She was a complete artist. Working with classic materials such as bronze and marble, she renewed her repertoire by using original plaster casts that she patinated, cast or molded resins, other composites, and finally, clay. This last medium was her preferred medium.
Marie-Jo Bourron drew direct inspiration from Camille Claudel. Like the latter, she is one of the few women to sculpt, and also pursues her quest for realism. Marie-Jo imbues her nudes with a similar touch, refining her poses and patinas. She brings a bold new approach to them.
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