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Spiral Notebook Chauveau - Birds

Spiral Notebook Chauveau - Birds

Spiral notebook published for the exhibition The land of monsters. Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940)" at the Musée d'Orsay.
The illustration of this notebook is inspired by one of Chauveau's works, The Old Testament.
French sculptor and illustrator, Léopold Chauveau was passionate about monsters, creating a whole universe around them.

€12.90

Characteristics

Maintenance :
Store in a dry place
Artist :
L. Chauveau (1870-1940)
Art movement :
20th century
Museum :
Musée d'Orsay
Theme :
Animals
EAN :
3336729144334
Material :
Paper, cardboard
Dimensions :
22 cm x 17 cm
Reference :
IP200041

Editor

Original work kept at :
Paris, musée d'Orsay

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The artist

L. Chauveau (1870-1940)

Parallel to his work as a doctor, embraced by family obligation but which he did not appreciate, Léopold Chauveau took refuge as a self-taught artist in a strange artistic universe, as singular as it was original. At once a sculptor, illustrator and author of books for adults and children, he was long forgotten by art history, before a donation from his grandson to the Musée d'Orsay in 2017 (18 sculptures and 100 drawings) brought his name back into the limelight. An atypical personality, Chauveau was introduced to sculpture around 1905 when he had been practising medicine for several years. From 1907 onwards, monsters became a leitmotif of his production, in both sculpture and drawing. Hybrid, his creatures are often endearing, clumsy and as if surprised by their own presence. Seeming to come out of his unconscious, they constitute for Chauveau real companions, the people of an imaginary world in which he would find refuge.