1980, patinated bronze, edition 1/3, the waist inscribed with artist signature, edition, title and date.

67 x 31 x 19 in.

New Jersey based artist, François Guillemin, known affectionately as "le Corbeau," was born in Houston, Texas in 1954. As a 4 year old, François took art classes at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and clearly remembers wandering around the Egyptian wing of the museum. This seminal experience was the impetus leading François to pursue jewelry making and sculpture.

After five years in France with his family, le Corbeau returned to Texas, before again moving five years later to San Diego, and eventually enrolling in art school at San Diego State and later at Princeton, New Jersey in 1976 to work at the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture. In 1985, with nearly ten years under his belt at the Johnson Atelier and a child on the way, François decided to strike out and establish his own business. For twenty years, he worked out of a home-based studio in Princeton, working with world-renowned architects to make furniture, lighting and railings, and burnishing his credentials for bringing to fruition magnificent ornamental metalwork projects.

In 2007, François renamed his company Firedance Studio, LLC and moved his operation and staff to a custom-built 15,000 square foot facility in Hopewell, New Jersey, where projects for both himself and clients across the country continue to expand in scope and complexity.

Overall good estate condition; some surface marks to patina at figure's right hip.