MONTALD (Constant).

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MONTALD (Constant).
"Out of the bath" (1883). Charcoal on paper, mounted on wooden frame. Dim. 157 x 220 cm (restored middle tear). This large signed work bears the handwritten mention "3rd year - competition prize", which corresponds to his third year of the 2nd cycle at the Academy of Ghent, i.e. 1883. Constant Montald (1862 - 1944) attended decorative painting courses at the Technical School of Ghent from the 1875s and in the evenings at the Academy of Fine Arts in that city. In 1883, he won First Prize in the Living Model Competition in the class of Theodore Danneel. This prize was accompanied by a grant of 3,000 francs, an important sum at the time. The "Sortie du bain" is the very design by Montald that won him First Prize in the Live Model Competition. Thanks to the scholarship, Constant Montald enrolled in 1885 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with the poster artist Privat-Livemont. In 1886, he won the Prix de Rome. On his return to Brussels, he became a member of Kumris, an avant-garde movement where symbolist inspiration was expressed in aesthetic and esoteric terms. In 1894, he took part with Jean Delville and Auguste Donnay in an exhibition of paintings organised by Kumris. In 1896, in the line of Joséphin Péladan's Salons Rose-Croix, he took part with Victor Rousseau and Léon Frédéric in the first Salon d'Art Idéaliste organised by Jean Delville. It is still with Jean Delville that he created in 1920 the Groupe d'Art Monumental of which Émile Fabry, Albert Ciamberlani, Omer Dierickx are also members. It is they who will produce, among other major achievements, the ceramics that decorate the semi-circular galleries of the Cinquantenaire. In addition to an intense production of art, Constant Montald was a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. In this capacity, he trained a whole generation of renowned artists: René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Paul Cauchie, Tytgat, ... Constant Montald will also be very close to Emile Verhaeren and Stefan Zweig. In 1934, Constant Montald became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
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