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Alfred Auguste Janniot (1889-1969), a renowned sculptor of the interwar period, left his mark on his contemporaries with his monumental work which married and magnified architecture, both in France and abroad. His two main achievements, the spectacular bas-reliefs for the Permanent Museum of the Colonies (1931) and for the Palais de Tokyo (1937), still resonate in everyone's minds today. He also participated in the great adventure of transatlantic liners with his work on Île-de-France (1926) and then Normandie (1935).
The winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1919, Janniot worked alongside some of the greatest architects in France, collaborating with Roger Séassal, Michel Roux-Spitz, Albert Laprade, Jacques d'Welles, Wallace Harrison, Jean Niermans and Pierre Patout. Rondes-bosses or monumental “stone tapestries”, his numerous works reveal his classical training acquired at the Paris School of Fine Arts, as well as an abundant creativity that can be found in his work on the Puteaux hotel (1932-1934), at the Châteauroux Chamber of Commerce (1934), at the French House at the Rockefeller Center in New York (1934), at the Bordeaux Labor Exchange (1935-1938) or at the Greystones villa in Dinard (1938-1950).
Emmanuel Bréon: Chief heritage curator, French Monuments Museum / City of Architecture & Heritage.
Claire Maingon: Art historian, lecturer at the University of Rouen.
Victorien Georges: Director of heritage and the Antoine Lécuyer Museum of Fine Arts in Saint-Quentin.
Anne Demeurisse: Sculpture expert at CNES and beneficiary of Alfred Janniot.
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