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Hubert Yencesse

Hubert Yencesse (1900 - 1987) was active/lived in France.  Hubert Yencesse is known for Realist style human figure sculpture, bronze, wood, charcoal drawing.

Hubert Yencesse
Born 28 April 1900, Paris
Died, 4 October 1987, Dijon, Paris, France
Nationality, French

Known for Swimmer, his sculpture entry at the Art Olympics, 1948.

Hubert Yencesse was born in Paris on 28 April 1900, and died in Dijon, Paris on 4 October 1987. He was a known French sculptor. He secured 3rd place (Bronze Medal) in the Art Olympics of the year 1948 for his sculpture Swimmer. His first exhibition was in the year 1921 at the Salon d'Automne*, and in the year 1934 he received the Blumenthal Prize*.

Hubert Yencesse entered the school of Fine Arts in Dijon, in 1919. His father, the medallist Ovice Yencesse, taught in the same school. Because of this, Hubert met the sculptor François Pompon and became his pupil.

Hubert was the father of the sculptor Dodie Yencesse, and the brother of the sculptor Jacques Yencesse. His wife Cécile Chambelland died in 1999.

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Facts about Hubert Yencesse

   Hubert Yencesse  Born:  1900 - Paris, France
Died:   1987 - Dijon, France
Known for:  Realist style human figure sculpture, bronze, wood, charcoal drawing

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Hubert Yencesse
Born 28 April 1900, Paris
Died, 4 October 1987, Dijon, Paris, France
Nationality, French

Known for Swimmer, his sculpture entry at the Art Olympics, 1948.

Hubert Yencesse was born in Paris on 28 April 1900, and died in Dijon, Paris on 4 October 1987. He was a known French sculptor. He secured 3rd place (Bronze Medal) in the Art Olympics of the year 1948 for his sculpture Swimmer. His first exhibition was in the year 1921 at the Salon d'Automne*, and in the year 1934 he received the Blumenthal Prize*.

Hubert Yencesse entered the school of Fine Arts in Dijon, in 1919. His father, the medallist Ovice Yencesse, taught in the same school. Because of this, Hubert met the sculptor François Pompon and became his pupil.

Hubert was the father of the sculptor Dodie Yencesse, and the brother of the sculptor Jacques Yencesse. His wife Cécile Chambelland died in 1999.

He exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in 1921 and received the French Blumenthal Prize in 1934. A little earlier, he was called upon to sculpt the left profile of aviator Georges Guynemer, with a view to making a bronze intended to decorate the facade of a monument erected on the military airfield of Ouges-Longvic in memory of the ace of war (monument inaugurated on 25 July 1932.)

The purse of the Blumenthal Prize allowed Hubert to settle in his Parisian workshop. He met Aristide Maillol, of whom he became a disciple and collaborator until 1936. 

Like Maillol, Yencesse devoted himself entirely to the representation of the female body. He exhibited in Paris at the Petit Palais in 1935, at the Salon des Tuileries and participated in exhibitions of French sculpture in Amsterdam, Brussels, etc. He also obtained numerous public commissions: participation in the decorations of the Palais de Chaillot in 1937; decorations for the University of Dijon in 1957; sculpture of a War Memorial in Belfort in 1948.
 In 1953, he produced a new monument to the dead for the city of Le Neubourg (Eure), replacing the old monument sculpted by Paul Landowski destroyed during the war.

He taught at the Beaux-Arts de Paris* from 1950 to 1970.  During these years, he assiduously frequented, charcoal in hand, the dance studios. He found his art renewed by this influence: The study of dance, he wrote "distances the sculptor from conventional and often worn plastic research; he discovers that a volume from the inside, bursting into space, has total plastic value.

In 1972, the Rodin museum in Paris devoted a retrospective to him. He was received as a member of the  Rodin Institute on 20 March 1974.

WORK
  
Reclining woman, circa 1935, plaster, Paris, museum of modern art, City of Paris  

Woman with the shell, 1937, bronze, Toulouse, National Veterinary School of Toulouse 
 
Flore, 1937, stone, Barentin, Hôtel de Ville, 

Head of a young woman, 1937, bronze, Mont-de-Marsan, Musée Despiau-Wlérick

Bust of a woman, before 1939, bronze, Boulogne-Billancourt, museum of Thirties

Bust young woman or Mademoiselle B., 1942, bronze, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts

La Musique, 1943, stone, current location unknown, formerly Chartres, town hall

Tourville, 1943, pierre, Coutances, town hall

Diane et son arc, vers 1943, plaster, Roubaix, La Piscine, André-Diligent Museum of Art and Industry

Diane et son arc, vers 1943, bronze, Paris, museum of modern art of City of Paris

Diane et son arc, 1943, bronze, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Bust of Paul Langevin, 1946, bronze, Paris, Rectorat d'Académie

La République, 1949, stone, Orleans

Monument to the dead, 1953, stone, Le Neubourg

The month of May 1956, stone, Fontainebleau, national castle museum

The Immaculate Conception, 1957, Laguiole, Saint-Matthieu church

Rock'n'Roll, 1962, bronze, The Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Rock'n'Roll, 1962, bronze, Elizabeth, South Australia

La Loire, 1980, bronze, Orléans, place Sainte-Croix

Spring, Summer, Autumn, plaster, Roubaix, La Piscine, André-Diligent Museum of Art and Industry

Woman's head, gilt plaster, Strasbourg, museum of modern and contemporary art

Swimmer, bronze, Algiers, Museum of Fine Arts

Source: Wikipedia, 2024
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Hubert Yencesse was a French sculptor born in an artistic environment. He studied at the École des Beaux-arts in Dijon, France from 1919 and became a student of François Pompon. 

He received the Blumenthal Prize in 1934 and moved to Paris where he collaborated with Aristide Maillol until 1936. Yencesse received numerous public commissions throughout his career and also taught at the Beaux-arts de Paris.


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