Curatella Manes, Pablo (1891-1962) – This bronze sculpture is titled “Las Tres Bañistas” (The Three Bathers) and was designed and executed by the Fundación Mendéz in 1922. Dimensions of the object: Width: 60 cm. Height: 40 cm. It has a new wooden base.
Curatella Manes, Pablo (1891-1962) – This bronze sculpture is titled “Las Tres Bañistas” (The Three Bathers) and was designed and executed by the Fundación Mendéz in 1922. Dimensions of the object: Width: 60 cm. Height: 40 cm. It has a new wooden base.
This Argentine sculptor was born in La Plata. Fascinated by sculpture from a young age, he attended the National School of Fine Arts. In 1910, he won a scholarship that took him to European cities such as Rome and Florence. Attracted by Europe, he left for Paris and settled in Montparnasse. He became a pupil of Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) and Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929). At the beginning of the Great War, he was forced to return to Argentina, where he opened his own gallery, the “Salon de otoño.” Later, a second scholarship enabled him to reside permanently in Paris. Drawing on the lessons of Henri Laurens (1885-1953), Juan Gris (1887-1927), Brancusi (1876-1957), and Le Corbusier (1887-1965), who all inspired him to Cubism, his sculptures became increasingly ‘avant-garde’. In 1926, he became a diplomat for the Argentine embassy in Paris, but he never stopped sculpting. For the 1937 Paris Exhibition, he designed and created a large relief for the Argentine Pavilion; in the same year, he was made an officer in the prestigious French “Légion d’honneur”. His work can be found in the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and in the French Musée de l’art Moderne in Paris.
