Two bookmarks featuring beautiful sculptures by Yves Le Pape (1926-2016). Look at those sublime faces! I particularly love the subtle smiles.
Yves Le Pape, of Breton origin , was born in February 1926 in Pont-l'Abbé , in Finistère, France.
His studies lead him to Tours , where he was a student at the School of Fine Arts (although some reports say he was self-taught.
His favourite specialty was the Virgin and Child, of which he sculpted several thousand copies, in sixty-five years.
The wood he used was mainly from oak, chestnut or iroko , an African wood. He polished his works with a gouge and a clasp, without sandpaper, and with a wax finish. He also sculpted in stone.
He exhibited in 1979 at the Orangerie of the Palais du Luxembourg.
A number of churches like that of the Augustins of Marseille , chapels, abbeys like Notre-Dame de Venière , and monasteries have one or more works by Le Pape. Numerous of his sculptures are also in private collections.