ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. UNIQUE ACADEMICIAN'S... - Lot 298 - Osenat

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ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. UNIQUE ACADEMICIAN'S... - Lot 298 - Osenat
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. UNIQUE ACADEMICIAN'S SWORD OF MISTER FRANÇOIS SICARD, (TOURS, 1862-PARIS, 1934). Beautiful gilt bronze frame signed "R. BAUDICHON". Pommel with sides, decorated with a castle on white enamel with waves, topped with foliage. Chiseled fuse of a peasant woman with her sickle and spray of flowers, on the back, mallet and sculptor's attributes on a background of rushes, maintained by a ribbon, dated "1924" on the body knot. Guard with a branch and quillon chiseled in high relief of laurel leaves. Keyboard representing the city of Tours. Triangular blade engraved with foliage, trophies and palms. Scabbard covered with black leather with two trimmings. Gilded brass cap, cut, decorated with the line, oval cap button decorated with the letters "FS" interlaced white enamel, engraved on the back: "Sword François Sicard elected to the Academy of Fine Arts February 9, 1924". Bouterolle engraved with the line in continuation. Dart in ball. Length : 93,5 cm. T.B.E. Biographies: François-Léon SICARD (or more frequently François Sicard), (Tours, 1862 - Paris 1934). French sculptor. Winner of the Rome prize in 1891. Sicard was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome from 1892 to 1895. He was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. He was the appointed sculptor of Georges Clemenceau whose bust he made. René BAUDICHON, (Tours, 1878-Paris, 1963), French sculptor, medalist and caricaturist. Grand-nephew of Bishop Joseph Baudichon, who baptized him René Baudichon. Studied at the School of Fine Arts in Tours, then in 1897 at the School of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a student of Louis-Ernest Barrias, François-Léon Sicard and Frédéric de Vernon. Baudichon was admitted to the Salon des artistes français in 1903. Member of the Artistic and Literary Society Le Cornet, he signed "Boby" a number of caricatures between 1903 and 19233. Knight of the Legion of Honor.
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