Biography

Raoul François LARCHE
(Saint André de Cubzac, October 22, 1860 – Paris, June 2, 1912), French school.
His activity corresponds to the full period of Art Nouveau, of which he remains one of the most outstanding representatives. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, notably under Jouffroy and Falguière, he made his debut at the 1884 Salon, winning the Second Prix de Rome in 1886. By then, he was highly regarded as a modern sculptor, and achieved one of his greatest successes with his Loïe Fuller. Enveloped in the whirlwind of her veils, the famous American dancer, who was the talk of the Folies-Bergère at the time, gave rise to multiple editions of bronze statuettes of various sizes. Raoul Larche received a number of official commissions for Paris monuments, including the Grand Palais (La Musique group), for the 1900 Universal Exhibition and, in 1909, for a basin on the theme of La Seine et ses affluents, originally intended for the Carrousel but eventually placed on the north side of the Grand Palais, opposite the entrance to the present-day Galeries nationales, where it still stands.
Museums
Bordeaux: Bacchus enfant, La Garonne
Paris, Orsay: La Mer, especially tableware in pewter
Paris, Petit Palais: Fleurs des prés, La Tempête et les nuées.

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