Jef Lambeau " The kiss " sculpture couple of nudes, workshop plaster, circa 1900

SOLD

High quality of realization, pronounced details. Inner iron frame (fingers, arms, legs, bodies and heads).
In perfect condition

Biography
In 1883, Jef Lambeaux was one of the founding members of the avant-garde Brussels group Les Vingt. He is quoted as a member of Freemasonry. His studio was located rue de Savoie (destroyed in 1898), then at no. 104 rue Antoine Bréart (destroyed in 1977) in Saint-Gilles (Brussels).
works
He notably directed Le Faune Bitten, shown at the universal exhibitions of Brussels (1897) and Paris (1900), but which was the center of a polemic on the nudes at the 1905 World's Fair in Liege where this work was covered with a veil.
Another major work is Les Passions humaines (1886), a marble bas-relief that has been incorporated into Victor Horta's pavilion at the Parc du Cinquantenaire, for which he received a medal of honor at the World's Fair. 1900 in Paris. He was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 1903. Since 1899, the relief of human Passions has been praised and criticized.
Main works
1881: The Kiss, at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp; Silvius Brabo, Antwerp, circa 1890: The Eagle Digger, at the Royal Museum of Ancient Art in Brussels; 1899: The Pavilion of Human Passions, is one of the first constructions of Victor Horta, built especially in 1899 in a classic style to house the monumental high relief of Jef Lambeaux The Human Passions, which evokes the pleasures and woes of the humanity. Three days after the opening, the work, daring for the time, which represents entwined bodies, causes a real moral scandal. The open pavilion behind the facade columns is walled and closed by a metal door. Now reopened, it is part of the Royal Museums of Art and History.