ARTFRANCE - Georges OUDOT

Born 28 July 1928 in Chaumont (Haute Marne). In 1946 enter to Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts where he learns with GIMOND and JANNIOT.

Prizes :

1955 - Prix Fénéon de sculpture

1955 - Bourse de la Jeune Sculpture (confered by the Société des Amateurs d'art et collectionneurs).

1956 - Prix Modigliani de dessin
1967 - Hommage confered by the jury du Prix de la Critique for his whole work.
1971 - Prix Biennale de sculpture Cécile Lenchener.

Sculptures in Muséums :

PARIS

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris "

Musée Carnavalet

Others cities in France

Musées de Belfort - Besançon - Marseille - Poitiers - Riom - Sète - Strasbourg- Valence

Abroad

Musées de Erlangen (Allemagne) - Fribourg-en-Brisgau (Allemagne) - Skopje (Yougoslavie) - Vatican - Monaco - Téhéran. Since 1950 about one hundred private exhibitions had been presented in France and abroad. A lot of works are now in the most famous private collections.

Public Monuments and Decorations :

1957 - L'Elan, bronze 2,50 m, Camaïore(Italie)

1961 - La Messagère de l'Esprit, bronze de 3,20 m, Besançon (commande de l'Etat)
1964 - La Main et l'Esprit, bronze 3,40 m, Besançon (commande de l'Etat) "

1964 - Groupe de quatre statues en bronze à Marshalltown, USA (Fisher) :

1965 - Buste monumental de République, Mairie de Besançon, bronze

1966 - La Source, pierre 3,30 m, C.E.G. de Morteau

1970 - Le Prophète, bronze 1,75 m, Mémorial de la Résistance et de la Déportation, Besançon

1975 - Monument des Rapatriés, pierre 4 m, Clinique Bon Secours, Besançon

1976 - Mémorial d'Evry Ville Nouvelle, bronze 2 m

1978 - La Grande Eclosion, pierre 3,20 m, Béthoncourt

1979 - La Grande Pensée, résine synthétique 3 m, Alfortville

1980 - Femme Assise, pierre 3 m, Anfrézieux

1980 - Tahiti entre Mer et Nuages, résine synthétique 4,50 m, Tahiti

1982 - Monument à Pouvana a Oopa, pierre 4 m, Tahiti
2004 - Georges OUDOT died on the 13th of October.

He realized also the academician rapier of the President Edgar FAURE, and he is the author of a lot of important people's portraits, as Madame POMPIDOU,Pierre MENDES-FRANCE, Juliette GRECO, President Edgar FAURE, Armand LANOUX and Princess Grâce de MONACO.

He created also many lithographs, engravings and memorial medals.A lot of well known writers and art critics have written texts about his works and his career : George BESSON, Claude-Roger MARX, Marcel AYME, Armand LANOUX,Pierre DESCARGUES, Raymond COGNIAT, Edgar FAURE, René HUYGHE, Bernard CLAVEL.

Georges OUDOT is represented by Artfrance, Paris.

The Princesse Grace of Monaco posing for Georges Oudot

Extracts from texts by writers and critics