Impressions of Artists N° 37 Drawings of a sculptor (Extracts of the publication)
More than 80 drawings the naked ones with accompanying notes are present in this work. You will see the sculptor drawing very many sketches of his model before beginning his sculpture. You can order it directly from Etienne Audfray, 26, rue Franchetti 94360 Bry-sur-Marne France. The price of the book is of 8 euros free of charge .

Extracted the foreword of his book by Etienne Audfray.

One day of spring 1959, I ask to be received by Armand Petersen. Why this approach ? Sculptor myself, I had been informed of the notoriety and the competence of a man, specialist recognized in an artistic discipline that I wished to deepen.

Son of Etienne Joseph Audfray, sabot-maker, and from Perrine Marie Joséphine Brémond, Etienne Audfray is born on August 4th, 1846 in Saint Christophe du Bois in Maine et Loire.

He begins studies of seminarist with Mongazon but he gives up them with the profit of artistic studies. Besides he will regret this ecclesiastical career throughout his life. There him remains a religious rigorism about it some. He goes to Paris: he is pupil of Paul H. Flandrin (landscape painter and portraitist). This teaching brings a technique of the portrait to him which represents the main part of his work, and in which he excels: He retains of its Master the research carefully of the pose (poses conventional), the dark tones of the garment and the serious faces.

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