Angelo Hecq & Roger Guerin Art Deco Cubist sculpture in sandstone, Bouffioulx ca 1925

Rare Art Deco Cubist female sculpture by Roger Guerin & Angelo Hecq, circa 1925.

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 renowned Belgian ceramist (Bouffioulx) of the 20th century, especially from 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 a very young age. He enrolled at the University of Work 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°). He will therefore evolve with talent in the 2 artistic styles of his time. Work comparable to 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 University of Decorative Arts of La CAMBRE in BRUSSELS.
Perfect in his achievements, he will be contacted for numerous artistic collaborations and will edit pieces for recognized 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 mounts are the fruit of the collaboration with Fernand Carion, creator of light fixture mounts and lamp bases for the French crystal factory Muller Frères Lunéville.
He participated in numerous exhibitions and notably won the silver medal at the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRIAL AND MODERN DECORATIVE ARTS IN PARIS in 1925. His international recognition led him to be seen at the JENSEN GALLERY in NEW YORK in 1947. His favorite forms are timeless: the ball vase, faceted, geometric...


Angelo Hecq is an architect, sculptor, ceramist, medalist, and professor at the Ecole Saint-Luc in Mons. He signs his works "Angelo" or “Angelo Hecq.”


In addition to 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 in Roger Guérin's studio in Bouffioulx. He is responsible for this sculpture of a kneeling nude woman in the Cubist style, created in Guérin's studio.