[1] René Quillivic was born on 13 May 1879[2] in the town of Plouhinec, Finistère, in a small house bordering one side of what is currently known as the "Place Jean Cosquer".
He decided to pursue an artistic career as a sculptor and was accepted by the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he joined the workshop of Antonin Mercier.
Most of these were located in Finistère (Carhaix, Coray, Fouesnant, Loudéac, Plouhinec, Plouyé, Plozévet, Pont-Croix, Pont-l'Abbé, and Saint-Pol-de-Leon).
The best known of his war memorials, and one of the four Quillivic pieces in his birthplace of Plouhinec, is a statue of a woman wearing a mourning cape, hands folded in prayer.
The semi naked female figure was considered too provocative and was replaced by a Madonna and Child by Jules-Charles Le Bozec.
[6] The gallery also holds other statues depicting the artist's mother, portrait heads of children and La Brodeuse de Pont-l'Abbé, the large bronze of a young Breton embroiderer.