Marcel Antoine Gimond (1894–1961) was a French sculptor known for his busts, statues, and portraits in bronze.
[1] He first studied at the Beaux-Arts Academy in Lyon and was the student in turn of both Aristide Maillol[1] and Auguste Rodin.
Gimond was an influential Professor at the Paris École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts until 1960.
[2] Garlanded with the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1957, Gimond, who was the son of a metal-worker, is considered to be France's last great portraitist or sculptor of the bust.
The possessor of a vast sculptural knowledge, Gimond was famed for his purified style which sought the permanence of forms beneath his subjects' individuality .