Constant Roux(France, 1865-1929)
"The Achilles Child!
"The Achilles Child!
Signed Constant Roux. Carved wood, height 28.5 cm (including stonebase 36.5 cm).
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The French sculptor Constant Roux studied woodcarving at the School of Fine Arts in Marseille, and continued later in Paris. After World War I he was commissioned to work on various war memorials In 1922 he created a bust of the French runner (Jean Bouin), which was erected on the forecourt of the Vélodrome Municipal de Vincennes in Paris on the occasion of the 1924 Olympic Games. Roux mainly produced busts, portraits, reliefs and friezes.
With this delicate Art Deco works, "Bust of an Adolescent" one can see he was a master of compositions.
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