Simone Gijsbrecht-Vanderborght
African woman with raised arm
1928
Bronze with black patina
H. 78 x L. 102 x D. 41 cm
Signed and dated S. Ghijsbrecht 1928
Bears the foundry stamp PETERMANN BRONZES ST-GILLES BRUXELLES
Bears the foundry stamp PETERMANN BRONZES ST-GILLES BRUXELLES
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The belgian sculptress Simone Ghijsbrecht-Vanderborght (1888 - 1969) came from a family of artists. The symbolist painter Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) and the musician Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931) were close family friends....
The belgian sculptress Simone Ghijsbrecht-Vanderborght (1888 - 1969) came from a family of artists. The symbolist painter Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) and the musician Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931) were close family friends. Her works in bronze and wood have a powerful style which now and then shares an affinity with that of Oscar Jespers (1887-1970) and also shows the influence of the world-renowned cubist Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), with whom she kept in contact. Her work by the end of the 1920s and in the 1930s tended to be smaller, in terracotta and bronze, with a preponderance of nudes inspired by African women.
While still very young Ghijsbrecht-Vanderborght became a pupil of Victor Rousseau (1865-1954), who sculpted her portrait. She married the lawyer Jacques Ghijsbrecht, who unfortunately died not long afterwards (1918). Until her marriage to Fritz Parmentier, in 1937, she was a member of the group known as "Le Centaure".