Margaret Cossaceanu

Margaret Cossaceanu or Margaret Cossaceanu-Lavrillier (born Margareta Cosăceanu; January 4, 1893 in Bucharest – September 22, 1980 in Paris) was a French sculptor of Romanian origin.

Margaret Cossaceanu

Biography

Margaret Cossaceanu, is the niece of scientist George Constantinescu, inventor of the Theory of sonics. She studied sculpture from 1910 to 1913 at the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest under Dimitrie Paciurea.

In 1921, she obtained a scholarship enabling her to go to Rome to pursue her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, (at the same time, painter Lucian Grigorescu was studying there). It was during this stay in the Italian capital that she met French engraver-medalist André Lavrillier, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1914, and boarder at the Villa Medici. He took her to Paris, and introduced her to sculptor Antoine Bourdelle.

After being awarded the Grand Prize at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1922, she left Rome to settle in Paris, where she attended the workshop of her compatriot Constantin Brâncuşi while continuing her studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, in Antoine Bourdelle's studio,[1] where she met Germaine Richier and Alberto Giacometti. Bourdelle took her as a collaborator in his workshop at impasse du Maine. He asked her to recreate in larger scale some of his works, as, for example, his Sapho; For these figurative works she used wax, earth, plaster, bronze or stone.[2]

She continued to work with him until his death in 1929.

In 1929, she married André Lavrillier, with whom she had three children, including photographer Carol-Marc Lavrillier.

She participated in various Salons and exhibitions, such as the Salon d'Automne or the Salon des Tuileries[3] and produced pieces for the French state. She was commissioned to create a high relief for the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life (1937), for the Asian and Romanian pavilions. The high relief of the Daces (marble, 3m high) for which she received the diploma of honor is today in Bucharest.[4]

Until 1977, at the request of the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint), she made several medals[5] (the medal of the deputies of the National Assembly (France) in 1968 - the portraits of Romain Gary, Anna de Noailles, Giacometti, Jean Effel, among others). In 1952, Bernheim-Jeune Gallery organized a retrospective exhibition of her work, and the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris acquired The great torso of Woman.

In 1970, for the fortieth anniversary of the death of her master, she created from memory a portrait of Antoine Bourdelle.

Margaret Cossaceanu died in Paris on September 22, 1980, at the age of 87.

In 1993, the Galerie Vallois in Paris organized a retrospective show of her work.[6]

Works and collections (selection)

References
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  2. "ARTE VIZUALE .O eleva a lui Bourdelle: Margareta Cosaceanu-Lavrillier" (in Romanian). Observator cultural. 20 April 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  3. "Cossaceanu-Lavrillier, Margarata (1893 -1980), Sculptor". Oxford Index/Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  4. "COSĂCEANU-LAVRILLIER, Margareta". Centrul Cultural Meta. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  5. "Margaret Cossaceanu-Lavrillier". Coins Archives. May 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  6. "Cossaceanu-Lavrillier, Marguerite" (in French). Le Delarge, Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  7. "Vogue" (in French). Condé nast (Paris). 1926. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  8. (fr) Salon d'automne in "La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe" , Paris 1926
  9. "Buste de M. André Lavrillier". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  10. "Monumentul Tudor Vladimirescu, Craiova, Despre Margareta Cosăceanu-Lavrillier" (in Romanian). monumente oltenia. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  11. "Exposition internationale des Arts et techniques de 1937. Pavillon de la Roumanie. Jardin derrière le pavillon. Bas reliefs : à droite, "Les Doces" de Lavillier-Cossaceanu" (in French). Portail des Bibilothèques municipales spécialisées. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  12. Bouzra, Élie (1998). "Le patrimoine de la Faculté de pharmacie de l'Université Paris V" (in French). Persée. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  13. "Catalogue Joconde, portail des Collections des musées de France" (in French). Culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  14. "Collections en Ligne, Buste du commandant Charcot" (in French). Web museo, Musée national de la Marine. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  15. "Buste de Georges Enesco, Lavrillier-Cossaceanu, Marguerite" (in French). Cité de la Musique, Philharmonie de Paris. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
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  17. "Collections en ligne" (in French). Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
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