Georges Jeanclos

Selected Works

Georges Jeanclos
Le voile
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
35 x 66 x 40 cm
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Georges Jeanclos
La tête du Rachi
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
21 x 12,5 x 14 cm
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Georges Jeanclos
Kamakura
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
36 x 49 x 57 cm
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Georges Jeanclos
La petite Eve II, circa 1990
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
62 x 36 x 31 cm
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Fonderie Océane

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Georges Jeanclos
L'arbre
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
210 x 30 x 30 cm
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Georges Jeanclos
L'arbre du voyageur, circa 1990
Patinated bronze, lost wax casting
72 x 29 x 30 cm
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Clémenti foundry

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Georges Jeanclos
Les dormeurs
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
20 x 50 x 34 cm
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Fonderie Clémenti

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Georges Jeanclos
La barque
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
28 x 48 x 22 cm
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Georges Jeanclos
La toupie
Bronze patiné, fonte à la cire perdue
26 x 50 x 23 cm
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Georges Jeanclos
L'extase, circa 1990
Patinated bronze and lost-wax casting
33 x 22 x 30 cm
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Clementi foundry

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Georges Jeanclos
Hanoukia, circa 1990
Bronze patiné et fonte à la cire perdue
58 x 42 x 20 cm
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Fonderie Clementi

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Georges Jeanclos
Le Rachi, 1991
Patinated bronze and lost-wax casting
190 x 50 x 50 cm
Océane foundry

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Georges Jeanclos
Julien le pauvre, circa 1990
Patinated bronze and lost-wax casting
52 x 49 x 21 cm
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Clementi foundry

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Georges Jeanclos
Le coeur, 1991
Patinated bronze and lost-wax casting
35 x 35 x 15 cm
Signed and numbered
Clementi foundry

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Some of the works depicted are no longer available.

Biography

Georges Jeanclos (1933 - 1997), is a sculptor of a Judaism after the Shoah. The construction of his works in earth aims to explore identity, the past, ethnicity. In relation to his past as a child in a Jewish family during the Second World War, he wishes to erect beauty in the face of the extreme, that is to say the revealed tenderness making the counterpart to the atrocity.

His terracotta figures, close to the dust from which the humanity of man emerges, are sleepers removed from the hostile world, withdrawn into their origins, enclosed in urns that celebrate the memory of the disappeared father, that of an exterminated people, who travel in boats towards eternity. They are Kamakuras, "Buddhist" figures from the East, with their landscape, Adam and Eve, patriarchs of the Torah, a great commentator of the Talmud, Rashi, still memory and homage of Judaism. They are also heroes of the resistance, victims of Nazi barbarity or other massacres, who bear witness to the artist's revolt and commitment. Finally, they are figures of compassion: Pietàs, bearers...

Jeanclos transgressed the Jewish prohibition of representation by stamping the Hebrew letter on his works and showing us the face of man in his earthy fragility. Two pendants appear within his creative process: the representation of existing objects, revealing a know-how and the expression of a lived emotion that alone gives life to forms, he says: "I wait for the unsuspected fruit of lived emotions to be born in contact with the material". Jeanclos created the new tympanum of the portal of Saint-Ayoul in Provins and the portal of Notre-Dame de la Treille in Lille, giving voice to the Gothic sculpture of cathedrals and revisiting its iconography.