La baigneuse (The Bather)

Details

PIET HECKERS (BELGIAN, 1891-1965)
La baigneuse (The Bather)
signed 'Piet. Heckers' to integral base
white statuary marble
89 in. (226 cm.) high; 19 ½ x 19 ¼ in. (49.5 x 49 cm.), the base

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A native of Ghent, Heckers studied at the Municipal Academy of Ghent and soon found work in the studio of the sculptor Louis-Pierre Van Biesbroeck and his cousin, the Orientalist painted Jules-Pierre Van Biesbroeck. As seen with the present lot, Heckers was primarily known of his figural work with a focus on busts and torsos. In 1925 Heckers was awarded the Paul De Vigne Prize, named after the famed Belgian sculptor of public monuments. Hecker’s monument to the fallen of the Blaisantvest district in WWI may still be seen in Ghent today.

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