Victor Ségoffin Explained
Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Ségoffin (5 March 1867 - 17 October 1925) was a French sculptor.
Biography
Born in Toulouse, Ségoffin's early education was at the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat. After school he was admitted to the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in the studio of Charles Ponsin-Andarahy. In 1887, having become an orphan, he joined the army. He took further education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Ségoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
In 1920 he was appointed head of the women's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, and an officier in 1911.[2] A street in Toulouse is named after him.
Works
His most notable works include:
- The war dance, marble, Musée d'Orsay, 1903–1905
- Sacred Mask Dance, bronze, Musée d'Orsay, 1905
- marble monument of Voltaire, meant for the Pantheon, now in the courtyard of the Lycée Voltaire, 1907–1921
- bronze Le Génie et le Temps, in the Cour Napoleon at the Louvre Palace, 1908, melted down during the German occupation
- bust of the Cuban-French poet José-Maria de Heredia, bronze, Jardin du Luxembourg
- Therese Combarieu, marble, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
- Denise Combarieu, bronze, Toulouse, Musée des Augustins
- Emile Cartailhac, bronze, Museum of Toulouse, 1914
Bibliography
- Luce Rivet, "Victor Ségoffin (1867-1923)", Revue du Comminges, 2e trimestre 1988
- Guillaume Peigné, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs néo-baroques français (1870-1914), Paris, CTHS, Coll. Format no 71, 2012, 559 p., p. 445-454
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Victor Ségoffin . Olympedia . 22 July 2020.
- https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/342454 Base Léonore: Légion d'Honneur dossier
