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222 - Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 - Besançon, 2004) Reverie Sang…
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Georges OUDOT (Chaumont, 1928 - Besançon, 2004) Reverie Sanguine and white chalk on paper, signed lower left, titled and numbered on the back 33 x 22 cm Unframed Provenance: Artist's family GEORGES OUDOT : Born in 1928 in Chaumont, into a family of Franc-Comtoise origin who would soon settle in Besançon, Georges Oudot took an early interest in sculpture, firing his first works in the family kitchen oven. He trained in drawing and sculpture: he was a pupil at the Besançon Municipal School of Fine Arts, then entered the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1946, where his teachers were Alfred Janniot and Marcel Gimond. He returned to Besançon after his studies and took up a studio in the house where Victor Hugo was born, where Gustave Courbet had worked before him. Portraits and nudes played a major role in his work. Oudot painted portraits of many celebrities, including Juliette Gréco, Grace de Monaco, Claude Pompidou (monumental bronze bust, 1971) and Pierre Mendès France. Several of his sculptures can be seen in the Bisontin landscape, including Le Prophète/Le Témoin at the Mémorial de la Résistance et de la Déportation, a Marianne (1965) at the town hall, the statue of Proud'hon in rue du Général Sarrail, the monumental Messagère de l'esprit (commissioned by the State in 1961) at the Lycée Montjoux and La Main et l'Esprit (1966) at the Lycée Pergaud, and L'Enfant et l'Univers (now preserved in Pirey). Throughout his career, Georges Oudot took part in a great many exhibitions and fairs (over 250) throughout France, as well as in Europe and the United States: in addition to group exhibitions, no fewer than thirty individual exhibitions were devoted to him from 1950 onwards (including one at the Findlay Gallery in New York in 1959, five in Tahiti from 1976 onwards, one at the Art Forum in Monaco in 1979, etc.). In 1960 he was the only sculptor invited to the "Triomphe du Figuratif" exhibition at the Galerie Gaveau in Paris, where his works were exhibited alongside those of Picasso, Braque, Gromaire and Lorjou. In 1966, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris bought him a 90 cm bronze sculpture (L'Hiver, 1964). His works are held in private collections throughout the world, as far afield as Japan, Hong Kong and Australia, and in public collections in Paris (Musée d'Art Moderne), Besançon, Belfort, Poitiers, Strasbourg, Valencia, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), etc.
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About the sale Jewellery, Gold, Fashion. 60 works by Georges OUDOT, 20 works by Denis VURPILLOT. Ecole comtoise & Classical paintings
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Auction time 06/18/2026 at 2:00 PM
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