He secured 3rd place (Bronze Medal) in the Art Olympics of the year 1948 for his sculpture Swimmer.
Hubert Yencesse was born in Paris in 1900, and entered the school of Fine Arts in Dijon in 1919.
[6] A little earlier, he was called upon to sculpt the left profile of aviator Georges Guynemer, with a view to making a bronze intended to decorate the facade of a monument erected on the military airfield of Ouges-Longvic in memory of the ace of war (monument inaugurated on 25 July 1932).
He was received as a member of the Institute on 20 March 1974, at the headquarters of Henri Navarre in the sculpture section of the Academy of Fine Arts.
André Warnod, Robert Couturier, René Barotte, Hubert Yencesse, cat.