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Pierre Camille Marie Le Faguays (1892–1962) was a French

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sculptor. He also used the pseudonyms Fayral, and Guebre. Le Faguays made statuettes, lamps and decorative objects.

Biography

Pierre Le Faguays was born in 1892 in

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, France. He was a student of

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at the

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(formerly École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève). He was married to sculptor Andrée Guebre (also known as Raymonde Guerbe), they never had children. His wife had modeled for many of his works. In 1922, he participated in exhibiting at the

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. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in multiple years; in 1926, a bust of his wife made in terracotta; and in 1931, a painted portrait of his wife. He mostly worked with materials such as

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, stone, zinc, wood,

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, and ivory. In Paris, Le Faguays had his statuettes made by the foundries

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, Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann, M. Ollier and by the foundry of the Austrian Arthur Goldscheider, a son of Friedrich Goldscheider. In the 1960s, his work was extensively reproduced and were often signed as "Favral" or "Fayral". Le Faguays work can be found in museum collections, including at the

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, the

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, and the

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, in

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References

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