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PAUL-MAXIMILIEN LANDOWSKI (1875-1961)
Le Pugiliste
bronze, signé « p. Landowski » et porte la marque du fondeur « F. BARBEDIENNE, Fondeur PARIS » sur la terrasse, sur une base en marbre Portor
H. bronze : 49,5 cm (1912 in.), H. totale : 53,5 cm (21 in.)
Le modèle créé en 1920 ;
Édition Barbedienne, contrat pour ce modèle établi en mars 1925
来源
Collection particulière américaine, New York.
出版
Bibliographie comparative :
M. Lefrançois, Paul Landowski: l'œuvre sculpté, Grâne, ed. Créphis, 2009, pp. 170-172.
F. Rionnet, Les Bronzes Barbedienne, l’œuvre d’une dynastie de fondeurs (1834-1954), Paris, 2016, dont cat. 1007, p. 361 et fig. 147, p. 131.
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A PUGILIST, PAUL-MAXIMILIEN LANDOWSKI (1875-1961), CAST BY BARBEDIENNE

Paul Landowski (1875-1961) was a French sculptor of Polish descent who rose to prominence in the early 20th century through his mastery of the academic tradition combined with a modern sensitivity to form. Landowski trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and developed a sculptural language rooted in classical ideals, yet attuned to the expressive realism of his contemporaries. Le Pugiliste studies Landowski’s frequent model, Georges Charpentier, who also sat for the artist’s Le Boxeur tombé (1921, Musée Landowski) and two unrealized projects, Boxeur mettant ses bandelettes and Combat. The subject—a lone, muscular boxer poised in a moment of concentration or recovery—embodies themes of struggle, resilience, and the quiet dignity of the athlete, resonating with broader ideals of heroism and masculine virtue.

This work demonstrates Landowski’s skill in capturing anatomical precision and emotional nuance, characteristics also evident in his David combattant Goliath (c. 1905), which similarly dramatizes the male figure in a narrative of physical confrontation. Landowski’s engagement with sport and movement aligns him with contemporaries such as Antoine Bourdelle, while his execution of restrain and form is rooted in the tradition of Neoclassic sculptors only a century earlier. Undoubtedly Antonio Canova’s Pugilists, the iconic and athletically-poised Creugas and Damoxenos, completed for the Vatican in 1801 and 1806 served as relevant source material for the artist’s oeuvre.

The present bronze, a lifetime base by the prolific Barbedienne foundry, reflects its refinement as an exemplary cast. One such example is illustrated in F. Rionnet, Les bronzes Barbedienne, l'oeuvre d'une dynastie de fondeurs, Paris, 2016, p. 131. Other examples of Landowski’s in the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Paul Landowski in Boulogne-Billancourt, where his commitment to public monuments and allegorical subjects is further explored. In 1928, Le Pugiliste won a gold medal in the Art competition for the Olympic Games. Notably, Landowski’s international fame was cemented by his design for Christ the Redeemer (1931) in Rio de Janeiro, a colossal synthesis of architectural and sculptural form that underscores his mastery of scale and symbolic gesture.
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Bérénice VerdierAssociate Specialist
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