Nicole Algan
{{short description|French sculptor}}
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Nicole Algan (June 13 1924 – May 29, 1986) was a French sculptor.
Biography
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From 1942 to 1944 Algan studied the École des Beaux-arts de Paris, in the studio of Charles Despiau. She then worked with Derain from 1944 to 1954.Michel Charzat, Le titan foudroyé, Paris, Hazan, 2015.
In 1957 Argan taught sculpture at the d'Hussein Dey youth school in Alger.{{cn|date=March 2021}}
In 1968 she realized en a large monument to the dead of Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence, made of five blocks of cement three metres high by five metres wide, and a bust of Facteur Cheval at Hauterives.
Exhibitions
- 1971 : L'Œil écoute, Lyon
- 1976 : L'art marginal, Nice
Collections
- Musée de Grenoble{{cite web |title=Tapisserie (Titre attribué) |url=https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/09940002231 |website=www.pop.culture.gouv.fr}}
- Hauterives, bust at the Palais du Facteur Cheval{{cite web |title=Photographes en Rhône-Alpes:Le facteur Ferdinand Cheval à Hauterives |url=https://numelyo.bm-lyon.fr/BML:BML_01ICO001015cfd3bfe0a0b9?&query[0]=isubjectgeographic:%22Hauterives%20(Dr%C3%B4me)%22&hitStart=5&hitPageSize=16&hitTotal=66 |website=numelyo.bm-lyon.fr}}
- Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon : Le petit dieu, sculpture, wood and steel, 137 x 70 x 30 cm{{cite web |title= Cnap |url=https://www.cnap.fr/collection-en-ligne#/artwork/140000000030444 |website=www.cnap.fr}}
- Musée de Romans-sur-Isère, jardin : sculptures
References
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Category:20th-century French women artists