Raymond Léon Rivoire

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Antoine Joseph Raymond Léon Rivoire (born October 21, 1884 in Cusset , France , † September 27, 1966 in Paris , France) was a French sculptor of the avant-garde movement .

Life

Raymond Léon Rivoire was born into a middle-class family. His father, Pierre Barthélemy Arthur Rivoire, came from Cannes ; his mother was Clarisse Victoire Alice Millet. Rivoire was a student of Jean-Antoine Injalbert . He studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris .

In Paris he exhibited in 1905 at the Salon des Artistes Français of the Société des Artistes Français . In 1906 he received an honorable mention , in 1921 a silver medal, in 1929 a gold medal and was rated out of competition ( hors-concours ). He also exhibited in London , Rome and Buenos Aires . On December 29, 1932 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor ( Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur ).

At the end of his life he lived in the Maison de retraite des artistes fondée par Dranem , a Altersrückzugsort for artists in Château Dranem the city of Ris-Orangis .

Works (selection)

Known as a sculptor of figures, statues and nudes, Rivoire worked with materials such as bronze, marble and stone. For the passenger ship “ Normandie ” he made the bronze Neptune, pulled by a seahorse , which was lost in the ship's fire in New York in 1942. More of his works are:

  • L'Enfant à la tortue , Rivoire's first work at the Salon des artistes français , made in 1904.
  • Baigneuse , Musée du Luxembourg .
  • Vénus , Ministry of Education ( Ministère de l'Éducation nationale ), Paris.
  • Femme au lévrier , also Diane chasseresse , around 1928. Copies of the bronze can be seen in the Musée du Louvre and in the Newark Museum ( New Jersey ).
  • La Ganaderia. Zeus Europe. ( L'enlèvement d'Europe par Zeus ). Parque Saavedra, La Plata , Argentina, 1914.
  • El Oceano Atlantico , Parque Saavedra 1914.

literature

Web links

Commons : Raymond Léon Rivoire  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionary of Artists . ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 2006.
  2. ↑ Monique Kuntz, Georges Frélastre: Hommes et femmes célèbres de l'Allier. Bonneton, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-86253-189-8 . P. 160.
  3. ↑ a b Base Arcade. In: Archives nationales .
  4. ↑ Michael Forrest: Art Bronzes. Schiffer, 1988, ISBN 0-88740-122-8 , p. 418.
  5. ↑ a b Monumentos. ( Memento of June 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Municipalidad en La Plata.
personal data
SURNAME Rivoire, Raymond Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rivoire, Antoine Joseph Léon Raymond (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Cusset , France
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1966
Place of death Paris , France