Lot 11: François-Léon Sicard , French 1862-1934 OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX bronze, gilt-patina

signed F. Sicard , inscribed BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR bronze, gilt-patina

measurements height 27 1/8 in. alternate measurements 69 cm

Musée d'Orsay, p.250

Sicard exhibited a cast of Oedipus and the Sphinx in plain bronze at the Salon of 1903. It was subsequently acquired by the state and is now in the Musée d'Orsay. The work was also edited in biscuit by Sèvres. Sicard studied under Barrias and Félix Laurent. He won the Prix de Rome in 1891 and a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900.