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Terracotta sculpture, unique piece by Michel Lucotte, France, 1959
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Description
Original terracotta sculpture by Michel Lucotte, signed and dated 1959. Unique piece.
Height: 54 cm (21.6 inches)
Width: 30 cm (11.8 inches)
Depth: 17 cm (6.7 inches)
Biography
Michel Lucotte (Born August 2, 1931 in Dijon, lives in Burgundy)
French painter, sculptor, writer, creator and poet.
Professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Dijon (1958-1961) and at the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Beaune (1951-1991).
Studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Dijon from 1946,
learns pottery, at the same time creating around a hundred fired and glazed clay pieces in a private studio in the town.
Visits to Vallauris, Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, La Borne.
Learns metalworking in a locksmith’s workshop in Dijon.
Teacher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Dijon from 1958 to 1961.
Teacher at the Ecole Municipale des Beaux-arts de Beaune from 1951 to 1991; taught ceramics for fifteen years, then painting and sculpture until his retirement.
Member of the European Cultural Society of Venice.
Solo exhibitions:
-1951: Galerie Mai, Paris
-1965: Salines Royales, Arc-et-Senans, Galerie Brocard, Paris
-1966: Musée des Beaux-arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
-1967: Galerie Numaga, Auvernier, Switzerland
-1972: Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
-1978: Galerie Axe, Paris
-1983: Galerie du Faubourg, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
-1987: Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône
-1991: Chapelle de 1’Oratoire and Bibliothèque Municipale, Beaune (catalog)
-1994: FNAC Forum, Dijon
Conseil régional de Bourgogne, Dijon
-1998: Athenaeum, Beaune
-2005: Centre Hospitalier G. F. Leclerc, Dijon
-2008: Galerie L’ Arc-en-Seine, Paris
-2009: Bibliothèque Municipale Gaspard Monge, Beaune
-2014: Bibliothèque Municipale Gaspard Monge, Beaune
-2015: Galerie Boccara, Paris
-2018: Beaune Museums
Works in public collections:
– 1967 to 1995: creation of fourteen sculptures, public commissions under the 1% scheme for schools, including five in Beaune
-1994: four stone sculptures, ConseiI régional de Bourgogne, Dijon
-1996: two stone sculptures, Musée des Beaux-arts, Dijon
-1999: two stone sculptures, Musée des Beaux-arts, Grenoble
-2005: a wooden sculpture, Centre Hospitalier G.F. Leclerc, Dijon
-2006: a steel sculpture and a painting, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
-2008 – July: total donation of a literary collection (fiction, studio notes, Ecrits en marge) Bibliothèque Municipale Gaspard Monge, Beaune;
-an album of engravings, Bibliothèque Municipale Gaspard Monge, Beaune
-An album of engravings, Bibliothèque Municipale, Dijon
-2009: two ceramics, Musée de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Works in private collections in France and abroad:
2007: Edition of the “Vase blanc”, ceramic, by Domeau et Péres, produced by the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
Published works:
-1990 Des arbres et des saisons, ed. Clos et Domaines
-1992 Ecrits en marge, notes d’atelier – Dossier d’art contemporain, ed. Porte du Sud
-1993 L’intaille alexandrine, novel, ed. Porte du Sud; Prix Bourgogne 1994; reprint ed. de L’ Arman9on
-1998 Le Verveux, novel, éd. de L’ Armandon - More Information
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