Saint Esprit argent 1990 Holy Spirit silver, 1990

by Bernard BASCHET

Sculpture : steel, aluminium 11.5 x 10 x 5 cm 4.5 x 3.9 x 2 inch

€9,500

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Unique work

Signature

Hand-signed by artist

Authenticity

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Medium

Sculpture: steel, aluminium

Dimensions cm inch

11.5 x 10 x 5 cm 4.5 x 3.9 x 2 inch Height x Width x Depth

Support

Sculpture sold with glass pedestal
Dimensions of pedestal: 16 x 10 x 4 cm 6.3 x 3.9 x 1.6 inch

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Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

“Bernard BASCHET (1917 France 2015) is a renowned international abstract sculptor. . In 1966 the personal exhibition Baschet at the MOMA Museum of Modern Art of New York lasts four months, attracts the general public and obtains a great impact with his concert at The White House for the President of the United States, it is extended at public request. by a tour of exhibitions of the largest museums in the United States. The doors of the great art collections are then and since then very wide open to him. This year 1966 Baschet sculpts the 15 metal dress-sculptures of the famous film “Who are you Polly Magoo?” Metropolitan Museum of Art, Decorative Arts Museum Paris. In 1975 his "Instrumentarium" revolutionized music education in France and soon in the United States, the Guggenheim Foundation solicited him, with success on both continents, and this is how at the Olympiads of the Arts in Paris that I organized in 1992 children and forties without musical training played spontaneously, suddenly immersed in the universe of their childhood, on these kinetic musical sculptures of 1952 or on the 14 musical instruments of "The Instrumentarium" of 1975, already so familiar , witnesses of the sound echoes of the world, an invitation to play with bright colors.
Childhood and Training Baschet was born into a family of five children in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, they went to the Ecole Alsacienne;
become a courier and confides to me: “I saw the social ladder! So I created my
His spiritual or material sculptural work
His favorite themes can be spiritual such as "The Prophet", "The Holy Spirit", "The Holy Water", "Christ in Glory", "Buddha", "The Archangel", or material such as "Couple", "Water lily “, “Design”, “Random clock”, etc.
Solo Shows Museum Film and Music Awards Discography
1958 Record Grand Prix 1962 1963 1964 Museum of Decorative Arts Paris, “Design” “L’objet” 1965 Finish Design Center, Helsinki. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Kanstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway. 1966 Museum of Modern Art in New York MOMA, 4 months, USA. United States museum tour. Museo di Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City, Mexico. 1966 “Who are You Polly Magoo?” Creation, manufacture, exhibition of 15 Sculptures-Robes BASCHET”, Hand-sculpted aluminum sculptures with the origami technique for the William Klein Film. 1967 Culture House of Amiens, France. 1968 Olympiad of the Arts Olympic Games, Exhibition of 240 Sculptures, Mexico City, Mexico. “HEMISPHAIR” San Antonio, TX, USA. 1968 Museum of Modern Art City of Paris France 1969 Arts Club, Chicago, USA. 1970 Expo 70, Universal Exhibition, Osaka, Japan. 1971 Palais Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Kunsthalle Cologne, Germany. 1972 Museums Germany, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. Stadhaus Hamm, Kunsthalle Wolfsburg. Landesmuseum Münster. Akademie der Kunste Berlin. Bottcherstrasse, Bramen. 1973 Museums Denmark Kanstforening Lyndgby-Taarbek, Copenhagen. Kanstforening, Aarhus. 1973 Orleans Culture House 1974 Chartres Museum. Narbonne and Blois museums. 1975 Fontevrault Abbey Museum 1976 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. House of Culture, Tournai, Belgium. University of Liège, Belgium. House of Culture Nivelle, Belgium. 1978 National Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 1979 Miro Foundation, Barcelona, ​​Spain. 1981 Museum Bellerive, Zürich, Switzerland. 1982 Wodsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. USA. 1983 Barbican Conservatory Gallery, London, England. Osaka Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. 1982 Queen of Denmark inaugurates Baschet show, President Mitterrand offers her a Baschet sculpture.
Art Olympiads Paris Art Olympiads
In 1991 1992, during the Olympiades des Arts de Paris, an international event under the aegis of President Mitterrand and the Mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, Bernard Baschet was selected with his brother François, whose sculptural work is different, to represent the France during the Arts Olympiad organized by the Lise Cormery Gallery, for the CNOSF, French National Olympic and Sports Committee, on the occasion of the Winter Olympics. Solo Shows CNIT La Défense, INSEP Campus, Lise Cormery Gallery, Paris. 2000 Historical exhibition 1952-2000 Tribute, Cité Musée de la Musique and Galerie Lise Cormery, Paris. 2011 Solo Show "Bernard BASCHET Gilles CORMERY (1950-1999) Masters of the Post-War School of Paris,. Extreit "Art of the Post-War School of Paris" Michelangelo Publications, Paris, 2020, Lise Cormery.”
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Bernard BASCHET

Bernard BASCHET

France  • 1917

Bernard BASCHET (1917-2015). « Excerpt of Lise Cormery book, Art of Post-War (1945-1999) Ecole de Paris, Michelangelo Paris 2020. “Bernard BASCHET, is a sculptor, he creates the musical instrument CRISTAL BASCHET, even today plaid in Shanghai Opera for classical music. His art belongs to the MOMA Collection Museum of Modern Art of New York, after his long Solo Show from October 1965 until January 1966. He gives a concert on Cristal BASCHET for the White House in 1966. His art is exhibited and belongs now to international museums, Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1964, Bruxelles Palais des Beaux-Arts, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Musée de Stockholm, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, etc. He creates the metal dress for William Klein movie « Who are you Polly Magoo ? » in 1966.  For his small or monumental sculptures in metal he uses the Origami technics. His sculptures are spiritual or natural : Prophet, Holy Spirit, Bouddha, Archangel, or Couple, Water Lily, Abstraction. etc. He is exhibited permanently at Galerie Lise Cormery, Paris, Art & Communication from 1986 until his death in 2015. In his lecture on Youtube with Lise Cormery in Paris University he presents his musical and sculptural theory. Lise Cormery writes : « Bernard Baschet, « Des Artistes Libres « Bons à rien ou Trésors Vivants ? » published by the University Paris-Diderot Paris-Cité in 2007. » 


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