ANGELO HECQ for ROGER GUERIN ‘Femme nue assoupie’ white cubist sculpture in large-fired salt stoneware, ca 1930

Rare cubist sculpture of a dozing woman by Angelo Hecq and published by Roger Guerin in salted stoneware, created in Bouffioulx around 1930.

Condition:Perfect condition

Dimensions: 19 cm x 20 cm x 12 cm

Bibliography: This sculpture is reproduced on p.64 full page and p.80 in ‘Au gré du grès - De l'Art Nouveau à l'Art Déco - Roger Guérin & Egard Aubry' Stéphane Pignolet, Cécile Schaack, Inge Taillie - published in 2007 by ‘Musée Le Clockarium'.

Biography:

Roger Guérin (1896-1954) was a Belgian ceramist ( Bouffioulx ) of great renown in the 20th century, especially in the Art Deco period and a friend of Edgard Aubry.

He was born in Belgium in 1896 and showed a keen interest in ceramics from an early age. He enrolled at the Université du Travail in Charleroi, where he took pottery classes with Willem DELSAUX.

Moving from the Art Nouveau period to Art Deco (between 1915 and 1945), he created vases and sculptures in ‘GRES SALE GRAND FEU' in a single firing (1300°). So he moved with talent in the 2 artistic styles of his time. His work is comparable to that of French ceramists such as Auguste Delaherche, Pierre Adrien Dalpayrat, Emile Lenoble, Léon Pointu, Ernest Chaplet, Decoeur, Paul Jeanneney, Jean Carries...

From 1934 to 1939, he was appointed PROFESSOR at the CAMBRE University of Decorative Arts in BRUSSELS.

Perfect in his creations, he was contacted for numerous artistic collaborations and produced pieces for well-known artists and sculptors (Belgian and foreign) such as Marcel Wolfers, Cris Agterberg (Amsterdam School in the Netherlands), Thierry Van Rijswijck, Domien Ingels, Cris Lebeau (Amsterdam School in the Netherlands), Angelo Hecq... Vases with wrought-iron frames are the fruit of a collaboration with Fernand Carion, designer of light fittings and lamp bases for the French crystal manufacturer Muller Frères Lunéville.

He took part in numerous exhibitions, winning a silver medal at the 1925 PARIS INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRIAL AND MODERN DECORATIVE ARTS. His international recognition led him to exhibit at the JENSEN GALLERY in NEW YORK in 1947. His favourite shapes are timeless: ball vases, faceted vases, geometric vases...

Angelo Hecq is an architect, sculptor, ceramist, medallist and teacher at the Ecole Saint-Luc in Mons. He signs his works ‘Angelo' or ‘Angelo Hecq'.

As well as his own work as a sculptor, he produces stoneware for La Maison Helman in Brussels, ceramics for Boch Frères Keramis in La Louvière, and La Céramique montoise (formerly Etablissements A. Dubois in Mons), which produces limited editions for Les Editions Nerva in Brussels.

His work is strongly influenced by Cubism.

Between 1930 and 1935, Angelo Hecq trained at Roger Guérin's workshop in Bouffioulx. We owe him this sculpture of a kneeling nude woman in the cubist style, created in Guérin's studio.