Celine Lepage

Signature Céline Lepages.

Celine Lepage (* 1882 in Warsaw , Congress Poland ; † 1928 in Paris , France ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Celine Lepage was born in Warsaw in 1882 to French parents. She lived and worked in Paris and exhibited there in 1905, 1913 and 1914 at the salons of the Société nationale des beaux-arts . For the Pomone Pavilion (art department of the Parisian department store Le Bon Marché ) at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern Paris in 1925, she made bas-relief sculptures. In 1921 Lepage designed the figure Mendiante a Marakech ( German  beggar from Marrakech ); a greatly simplified representation of an Arab woman in the style of Art Deco , which was offered by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Arthur Goldscheider in various sizes.

Works (selection)

• La cueilette des oranges , 1922
• Tete aux nattes , 1920
• Jeune femme en armure
• Petit cheval cambré
• Visage
• La mauresque
• Femme nue aux antilopes , 1926
• L'indexne
• Masque de femme aux tresses
• Bédouine à l'enfant

literature

• Victor Arwas : Art deco sculpture. Academy Editions, 1992. p. 239.
• Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnold, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 , p. 545.
• Waltraud Neuwirth: Viennese ceramics. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco. Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1974.
• Lepage, Celine . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 94 .
• Celine Lepage . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 213 .
• Sculptures décoratives de Celine Lepage. Préface de René-Jean. Librairie des Arts décoratifs.

Web links

• Celine Lepage (French, 1882-1928). In: artnet , with pictures of Lepages' work.