biography
pronunciation:
[despyoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1946)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Mont-de-Marsan, SW France. He was influenced and discovered by Rodin, for whom he worked in 1907–14. A sensitive, Neoclassical portraitist, his earliest major work was Paulette (1907, Musée d'art moderne, Paris). His only large-scale work remains the war memorial in Mont-de-Marsan (1920–2). Other works include Head of Madame Derain (1922) in Washington, DC. |
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