SCULPTURE EN MARBRE "LA PENSEUSE" atrribuée à GEMIGNANI Ulysse

MARBLE SCULPTURE in the manner of GEMIGNANI Ulysse Depicting a young pensive woman seated on a bench, one hand resting under her chin. About: Ulysse Gemignani was a French sculptor born in Paris on 21 December 1906 and died in the same city on 21 January 1973. Biography: Ulysse Jean-Baptiste Antonin Marius Gemignani was born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris on 21 December 1906. Having entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, where he studied under Jean-Antoine Injalbert and later Henri Bouchard, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1929 onwards. After receiving the second Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1932, he was awarded the following year the first Grand Prix with Orphée apaise la tempête. He resided at the Villa Medici between 1934 and 1937, where he met Yvonne Desportes, who had obtained the previous year the first Grand Prix de Rome for musical composition. She would become his wife and the couple had three children, including Vincent, a composer and percussionist, and Michel Gémignani, a painter and Prix de Rome laureate in 1966. The family resided in Méricourt in the Yvelines. In 1937, he received a gold medal at the Salon and was placed hors concours. He became a member of the jury of the Salon des artistes français, and subsequently of the Prix de Rome selection jury. He was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1955. He died on 21 January 1973 at his Paris residence in the 14th arrondissement.