Jean Joire

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| nationality = French

| occupation = Sculptor

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1862|9|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Lille, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1950|9|8|1862|9|5|df=yes}}

| death_place = Lomme, Lille, France

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Jean Victor François Joseph Joire (5 September 1862 – 8 September 1950)[https://gw.geneanet.org/favrejhas?lang=fr&p=jean&n=joire&oc=2 Geneanet.org]; Archives du Nord, acte no. 3121, 5 septembre 1862, with marginal reference to decease was a French animalier sculptor.

Biography

Joire was born into a family of bankers in Lille, where from 1875 to 1880 he attended the Écoles académiques. He worked at first in banking before becoming a full-time sculptor. From 1891 he was a regular contributor to the Salon des artistes français in Paris, mostly exhibiting animal pieces, particularly of horses and shepherd dogs, and became a member of it in 1906.[https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/search?siteToSearch=benezit&q=joire&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true Benezit: Jean Joire]

He opened a school of sculpture in Lille in collaboration with the sculptor Giacomo Merculiano (1859–1935). His studio records were apparently destroyed and few traces remain of his history and his work in the archives of his family.[https://www.latribunedelart.com/le-sculpteur-jean-joire-1862-1950 "Le sculpteur Jean Joire (1862-1950)" in La Tribune de l'Art, 8 March 2019] Until 1914 he used to spend the summers at the family's Château Joire (the present Maison des Enfants) at Lomme, a commune attached to Lille since 2000. In the château's park, certain of his works were visible from the street until their destruction during World War I.Jules Brenne, Lomme au Temps des Bourgeois, Tome 2, deuxième partie de la 1re page de garde ([https://excerpts.numilog.com/books/9782402204422.pdf online version])

His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2600033 |title=Jean Joire |work=Olympedia |access-date=30 July 2020}}

Works in public collections

A selective list:

Lille :
Garrison Officers' Mess, Rue du Pont Neuf: En Vedette, 1912 or 1913, equestrian statue in bronze{{cite web|access-date=2020-06-20|title=En Vedette – statue équestre – Lille|url=https://e-monumen.net/patrimoine-monumental/en-vedette-lille/|website=Monumen.net}}.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille: "Tom", Belgian Shepherd, 1905, bronze
Roubaix, La Piscine Museum: Bulldog's head, 1927, bronze

File:Le chien de berger belge «Tom» – Sculpture de Jean Joire.jpg|Tom, Belgian Shepherd, 1905, bronze

File:111. - Lille — En Vedette, de Jean Joire (8X10).jpg|En Vedette, 1912 or 1913, equestrian statue in bronze

Jean Joire

Biography

Works in public collections

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