Claire Colinet
Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet (* 1880 in Brussels , Kingdom of Belgium , † 1950 in Asnieres-sur-Seine , France ) was a French sculptor of Art Deco .
life and work
Claire Colinet was a student of the sculptor Jef Lambeaux in Brussels . After completing her training, she moved to Paris around 1910 and later lived at 59 Rue du Chateau in Asnières-sur-Seine in the greater Paris area.
In 1913 she first exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français . The following year she received a mention honorable , a mention honorary, as Demetre Chiparus and Louis Comfort Tiffany . She continued her participation in the exhibitions in the Salon des Artistes Francais in the following years and was elected a full member of the Société in 1929. For this occasion she made a plaster cast statue with the title Les reves sont des bulles da savon ( German dreams are soap bubbles ). In 1935 she showed a statue of the young Belgian prince and later King Albert II. Her last documented participation in these salons was in 1945. From 1937 to 1940 she had also exhibited at the Paris Salon of the Société des Artistes Indépendants . She was also a member of the Union des femmes et peintres sculpteurs ( Association of women painters and sculptors ).
Colinet was influenced by exoticism and carried out her work in a detailed and fluid manner. Her chryselephantine figures made of bronze and ivory often had very dramatic scenes on the topic and show the models in poses, which often represent a snapshot of complicated dance steps or the climax of a biblical story or historical narrative, but also odalisques , exotic dancers, jugglers and cabaret artists . The bronze in her figures is usually patinated rather than enameled, and is occasionally set with jewels. Her statuettes were mainly made in the Parisian art foundries Edmond Etling , Arthur Goldscheider , Baroperne and Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann . The marble plinths of the figures were often multi-colored and carried bronze plaques with decorative motifs that referred to the country represented by the figure. Where the subject of the figure did not allow a cast signature (Cr. JR Colinet), this was occasionally carved into the marble.
Colinets married Godchaux around 1913; Alberto Shayo assumes that it was the French painter and sculptor Roger Godchaux (1878-1958). Her second marriage was with André Marcel Nigron in March 1929, which gave her French citizenship.
Works (selection)
- Ankara Danseuse ; the statuette sold for £ 144,000 at Christie's London auction house in 2007 .
- Valkyrie
- Hindu ballerina
- Carmen
- juggler
literature
- Bryan Catley: Art Deco and Other Figures . Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge 1978. ISBN 978-1-85149-382-1 , pp. 112-123.
- Michael Forrest: Art Bronzes . Schiffer, 1988. ISBN 0-88740-122-8 , pp. 303, 322-323, 473.
- Eric Knowles : Art Deco . Shire Collections, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. ISBN 0-74781-521-6 , p. 68.
- Judith Miller : Miller's Art Deco: Living with the Art Deco Style. Hachette UK, 2016. ISBN 1-78472-278-2 . P. 180.
- Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 69.
Web links
- Artist Profiles. Clare Jeanne Roberte Colinet. In: largeart.com .
- Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet. In: askart.com .
- Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet (French, 1880-1950) . In: artnet , with pictures of Colinet's work.
Individual evidence
- ^ Claire Jeanne Roberte Colinet, Ankara Dancer Sculpture, circa 1930 (Sale 7387, Lot 161) . In: christies.com of May 4, 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colinet, Claire |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colinet, Claire Jeanne Roberte (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Art Deco sculptress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels , Kingdom of Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1950 |
| Place of death | Asnières-sur-Seine , France |