Anna Quinquaud
Anna Fanny Marguerite Quinquaud (1890–1984)[1] was a French explorer and award-winning sculptor. From 1925, she travelled to the French-speaking countries of East Africa where she created numerous sculptures and water colours inspired by her impressions of the local people. She exhibited them at the Galerie Charpentier and at the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931. In 1932, she returned to Ethiopia where she created a bust of Haile Selassie.[2]
Her work is included in the collection of the musée Despiau-Wlérick in Mont-de-Marsan, France.[3]
Early life and education
Born on 5 March 1890 in Paris,[1] Anna Fanny Marguerite Quinquaud was the fourth child of the dermatologist Charles-Eugène Quinquaud (1841–1894) and Thérèse Phanie Caillaux (1859–1928), a sculptor, who introduced her to the art of sculpting.[4] Following the death of her father, she spent her summers on the family's property at Lafat in the Creuse where her mother had a studio.[5][6] It was at Lafat when only 12 years old that she created a terrocotta relief titled "La Bergère et ses moutons".[2] When she was 17, she was commissioned to create a bust of the politician Armand Fourot for Évaux-les-Bains.[5] Quinquaud received further instruction under Blanche Laurent before being admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1918 where she studied under Laurent Marqueste and Victor Ségoffin.[7]
Career
In 1924, the École des Beaux-Arts awarded her a Prix de Rome scholarship, including a year's study in Rome. However she decided instead to travel to Africa in 1925–26, visiting the Niger, Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan and Mali, accompanied by Sudanese boys who carried her boxes of sculpture, clothes and equipment. Inspired by the local people, she portrayed them in her sculptures.[2][8]
She subsequently returned to Africa in 1930-31, this time at her own expense, visiting the Niger, the Fouta Djallon region of French Guinea and Timbuktu.[2] Based in Pita, over a period of eight months she came into contact with the Fula, Coniagui and Bassari people. Her creations include the tall beauty Aissatou, the rather sulky Kadé, Tougué's daughter, Nénégalley, daughter of Tierno Moktar, chief of Pita, a little Fula girl, her "Maternité Pita", holding a baby, and "Archer coniagui" complete with bow.[9]
In 1932, she visited Africa for the third and last time, visiting Somalia, Ethiopia and Madagascar.[10]
Thanks to her careful observation of their bodies and faces, her busts, bronzes and artwork depicted African women during pregnancy, carrying water or at work.[11]
References
- ^ a b "Anna Quinquaud". Geneanet. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Anna Quinquaud (1890-1984)" (in French). Galery Ary Jan. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ "Musée Despiau-Wlérick à Mont-de-Marsan : l'Oeuvre du mois à découvrir jeudi".
- ^ "Thérèse Phanie Caillaux" (in French). Geneanet. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Anna Quinquaud artiste, aventurière et libre" (in French). La Creuse. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Thérèse Caillaux et Anna Quinquaud" (in French). Histoire et Généalogie: médiathèque d'Arcueil. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Allavena, Stéphanie. "Anna Fanny Quinquaud, une ethnographe en terre chrétienne" (in French). Centre national des arts plastiques. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Quinquaud Anna" (in French). Galerie Dumonteil. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Nénégalley du Futah-Djalon : Exposition des sculptures d'Anna Quinquaud à Brest[author=Cordier, Jean-Yves" (in French). www.lavieb-aile.com. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ Cordier, Jean-Yves. "Enquête sur une femme Bellah : l'exposition Anna Quinquaud au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest" (in French). www.lavieb-aile.com. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
- ^ "Sculpture Quinquaud Anna : cote, prix et estimation en vue d'une vente" (in French). France Estimations. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
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