Tag: Grand Prix de Rome

Évariste Jonchère (France, 1892-1956) Moines devant un temple au Laos (Monks in front of a Temple in Laos) signed and dated 'E.Jonchère 34' (lower centre) oil on panel 38 x 27 cm. (15 x 100 5/8 in.) Price Realised EUR 2,400 at Christie's Paris, 24 March 2005   A former pupil of Antonin Mercié, this ...

Sculptor Évariste Jonchère (France, 1892-1956), who took over the position of Victor Tardieu (France, 1870-1937) as a director of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine (The School of Fine Arts of Indochina) in Hanoi from 1938 to 1945, receiving the first Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in Paris, 1925. Photographed for the press by Agence ...