Charles-Henri Pourquet Explained

Charles-Henri Pourquet
Birth Name:	Henri Charles Justin Pourquet
Birth Date:	14 August 1877
Birth Place:	Colombes, France
Occupation:	sculptor

Charles-Henri Pourquet, born Henri Charles Justin Pourquet (14 August 1877 – 1943) was a French sculptor.

Life

Born in Colombes, the son of a baker, Pourquet had Nivernais origins and was a student of Louis-Ernest Barrias and Jules Coutan at the École des beaux-arts de Paris.^[1] In 1907, he became a member of the Société des artistes français

He was successful after the First World War, with sculptures of Poilus that served as models for many war memorials in France^[2] under three different models: Bust, Poilu, and more particularly the one entitled Resistance, of which several hundred copies will be cast by the .^[3]

Among other works, is "Orpheus at the tomb of Eurydice", a bas-relief which will then be acquired by the State for the new National Conservatory of Music,^[4] a monument dedicated to Jules Renard in Chitry-les-Mines (Nièvre)^[4] where the writer lived as a child, and the Tombeau de la famille Sabaterie, in the Arlanc (Puy-de-Dôme) cemetery.^[4] He remarried at the town hall of the 18th arrondissement on 5 November 1921, with Valentine Saint-Selve.

For a long time, Pourquet had his workshop at, an artists community located at 22 ^[5] in Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement.

Awards

• Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1931.
• Gold medal at the 1929 Salon.

Salons

• Salon des artistes français:
• 1925: Maréchal Sérurier, stone statue, commissioned by the State.
• 1928: Statue de mon jeune ami Jean Le Blond, plaster; Tristesse, terracotta statuette.
• 1935: M. Renaitour, député-maire d'Auxerre, plaster, M. Ortiz, président des Amis de la Légion.

Works

• Chitry: Monument to Jules Renard , destroyed in 1942.
• Lormes: Résistance, Poilu blocking the enemy's way, at the top of the War Memorial.

Critical reception

• In May 1919, the magazine L'Art funéraire devoted a complimentary article to him with a photograph on the front page. Each issue, since its publication, has been used to advertise him and describes him as a "statuary of pain".

Bibliography

• Benezit Dictionary of Artists
• André Roussard, Dictionnaire des peintres à Montmartre, Paris, éditions Roussard, 1999, .
• Bernard Morot-Gaudry, La sculpture en Morvan au XXe siècle et début du XXIe, 2017, Éditions, bulletin No. 82, .
• Maurice Le Blond, L'Œuvre de Charles-Henri Pourquet, statuaire, 1921.

External links

• POURQUET Charles-Henri
• Les œuvres commémoratives du sculpteur Pourquet
• Monuments aux morts de Normandie et d'ailleurs

Notes and References

1. Book: Stéphane Richemond. Les orientalistes; dictionnaire des sculpteurs, XIXe-XXe siècles . les éditions de l'Amateur . 2008 . 178 . 9782859174842 .
2. Book: Thierry Lemoine. Stéphanie Claisse. Comment (se) sortir de la Grande guerre ? . . Paris . 2005 . 9782747592079.
3. Web site: POURQUET Charles-Henri- Sculpteur . Les monuments aux morts . 7 February 2019 . 19 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160919092645/http://monumentsmorts.univ-lille3.fr/auteur/173/pourquetcharles-henri/ . dead .
4. Book: Maurice Le Blond. L'œuvre de M. Charles-Henri Pourquet, statuaire. Paris. https://archive.today/20160816173721/http://www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,337278824,var,Loeuvre-de-Charles-Henri-Pourquet-statuaire-par-Maurice-Le-Blond-1921,language,F.html. dead. August 16, 2016. .
5. Web site: L'Art funéraire et commémoratif, June 1922 . 2019-02-07 . 2016-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160315162606/http://monumentsmorts.univ-lille3.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/P1310165.jpg . dead .