Henri Laurens

From 1899 to 1902, he attended drawing classes at the École d'Art Industriel,[2] during which he produced works that were greatly influenced by the popularity of Auguste Rodin.

From 1915, he began to sculpt in the Cubist style after meeting Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger.

[3] Laurens was exempted from call-up for the First World War, after having a leg amputated in 1909 due to osteo-tuberculosis.

An example of this style is the monumental piece L'Amphion, which he first designed on a smaller scale before created the final version in 1952 for the Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, after a request from the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva.

[6] Henri Laurens died in Paris, after collapsing while out on an evening walk,[5] and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse there.

Henri Laurens, 1920, Le Petit boxeur , 43 cm, reproduced in Život 2 (1922), p 53
Henri Laurens, Céline Arnauld , reproduced in Tournevire , Edition de L'Esprit Nouveau , 1919 [ 1 ]
L' Amphion located at the Central University of Venezuela , Caracas