LUCIENE ANTOINETTE HEUVELMANS (Paris 1881 - 1944). "Child... Lot 7

LUCIENE ANTOINETTE HEUVELMANS (Paris 1881 - 1944). "Child with Dove". Bronze. Measurements: 43 x 47 x 25 cm. Luciene Antoninette was a French artist, born in 1881, daughter of Osval Heuvelmans, a designer and cabinetmaker from Ath, and Donatilde Sandra, a milliner from Leuze-en-Hainaut. After attending evening classes in sculpture, Heuvelmans was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1904. She studied with sculptors Laurent Marqueste, Emmanuel Hannaux (fr) and Denys Puech. She was the first woman to win the Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in July 1911 for her work, The Sister of Orestes tending her brother's dream. Admitted to the Villa Medici, she studied there from January 1912 to December 1914 under the direction of Albert Besnard. On her return to France, Heuvelmans was appointed drawing teacher in the schools of the City of Paris. She set up her studio on the ground floor and mezzanine of 17, rue des Tournelles in the back wing of the Rohan-Guémené hotel. He regularly participated in exhibitions at the Salon des artistes français where he obtained an honourable mention in 1907, then a bronze medal in 1921, and at the Salon des artistes decorateurs at the Grand Palais between 1926 and 1933. From 1924 to 1926 he completed commissions for the Manufacture de Sevres. Lucienne Heuvelmans received the insignia of "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur" in 1926 under the Ministry of Fine Arts. In the early 1930s.