artist/ Bodart

France

Born in 1916 in Saint Denis (93), he spent his childhood in Carignan (54) and learned to cut stone in his father’s funeral marble business. Marcel began his artistic studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy. After returning from the war in 1940 and being demobilised, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There he was taught by Henri Bouchard, among others. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1945.
Fascinated by animals and an admirer of the sculptor François Pompom, Marcel Bodard spent a lot of time at the zoo and the Jardin des Plantes observing the animal world, which became the main theme of his work. He worked in marble, stone, clay and copper, but above all in iron, iron that ‘resists’.