Georges Lucien GUYOT: Couple of Lions, Original signed engraving

Georges Guyot : (1885-1973) born in 1885 in Paris, Georges Lucien Guyot is one of the most important french animal sculptor of his time. He received no academic training due to his modest origins. He was taught sculpture by a wood sculptor. He started being attracted to nature at a young age, and would later draw his inspiration from the Jardin des Plantes, a zoological garden in Paris, where he would sketch wild animals, and endeavour to faithfuly reproduce his observations in his sculptures, never sliding to naturalism, by filtering them through his own subjectivity. When Cubism appeared, Georges Guyot was a frequent visitor to the Bateau-Lavoir. From 1931, he joined the groupe des Douze (Group of the Twelve), founded by François Pompon and the american artist Jane Poupelet, including Paul Jouve among others. He achieved success quite early but he had his first personal exhibition only in 1970, three years before his death, a time when he was staying at Pablo Picasso's work shop at the Bateau-Lavoir.