Lucille Sévin

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Lucille Sévin (* before 1920 in Sèvres , France ; † after 1940) was a French sculptor .

Life

Sévin's life data are not known in the literature. She was a student of the sculptor François-Léon Sicard (1862–1934) and worked as an artist from 1920 to 1940. She made numerous chryselephantine sculptures in the Art Deco style , for which she used materials such as bronze (often silver-plated or gilded) and ivory. Her work was handcrafted and sold by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Edmond Etling .

Sévin also worked with glass , ceramics and porcelain . Her sculptures of dancers made of milky satined, iridescent glass like Isadora from 1925 were made for Etling in a glassworks in Choisy-le-Roi . Their glass works were representative of the "Etling style"; For a while, Sévin was the company's art director. Her husband, the sculptor Jean Théodore Delabassé, also worked for Etling.

Exhibitions

Sévin exhibited her work at the salons of the Société des Artistes Français in Paris and became a member of the society. Here she won the bronze medal in 1932, the silver medal in 1937 and the gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 . She also showed her works at the Paris Société du Salon d'Automne .

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Individual evidence

  1. Lucille Sevin (French). In: artnet

Remarks

  1. The glass sculpture was modeled on the American dancer Isadora Duncan .