French sculptor Hubert Yencesse won a bronze medal with his sculpture Nageuse (Female swimmer) at the 1948 London Olympics in the Art Competitions. The 1.83 m high plaster or bronze figure dates from 1936. The submitted plaster version can be found in the Musée des Années Trente in Boulogne-Billancourt. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. His father Ovide Yencesse (1869-1947) was a well-known medalist and his mother Marie (née Chatuis) was a painter, while his brother Jacques, and his daughter Dodie were also sculptors.
Hubert Yencesse exhibited for the first time at the Salon d’Automne in 1921 and received the Blumenthal Prize in 1934, which allowed him to settle in his Paris studio. Yencesse was entirely devoted to the representation of the female body and worked with plaster, stone, or bronze. From 1950-70 he taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1974 he became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts.
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