Chryselephantine «Our Lady of Hope»

Sculpture in bronze and ivory representing the Madonna and Child signed Heuvelmans, black marble base in Belgium, circa 1928. Lucienne Antoinette Heuvelmans Adelaide was born in Paris in 1885, daughter of the designer and cabinetmaker Oswald Heuvelmans and milliner Dona Sandrastilde. She is a painter, illustrator and French sculptor. She was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1904 where she became a pupil of the sculptor Laurent Marqueste Emmanuel Hannnaux and Denys Puech. It was in 1911, the first woman to win a Grand Prize of Rome for his subject «Orestes asleep. She stayed from 1912 to 1914 at the Villa Medici. Back in Paris, she was appointed professor of drawing in the city schools. She participates regularly in the Salon des Artistes French where she graduated in 1921 a bronze medal. She also participates in the Salon des Artistes Decorators Grand Palace between 1926 and 1933 and worked for the Manufacture de Sèvres from 1924 to 1926. The city of Paris commissioned him a group of stone monuments «The Illusions and Regret» for the garden's pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Moderne in 1925. In early 1930 she moved to Britain and specializes in religious art and antique mytologi.