Rosine Baldaccini, is a French artist born in 1934. Her sculpture is the essence of her identity. Rosine Baldaccini’s figures are suspended in the most revealing moment of their own intimacy. All of her work is made with patience and a singular goal, to confer them with the absolute truth of their appearance, which is a lengthy process that begins with materials varying from clay to bronze, plaster and wax with incessant reworking at every stage. Each detail is then highlighted by a patinated polychromy in vivid colors.
The profound humanity of Baldaccini expresses itself with modesty and the same sense of intimacy that characterises each of her sculptures. The fantastic nature of her subjects and their incongruities reveal a very personal poetic vision.
Baldaccini met French artist César in 1948. The couple married in 1957 and their daughter Anna was born in 1958.
Rosine Baldaccini took part in a group exhibition at the Colette Creuzevault gallery at the salon de Mars in 1989, then in a group exhibition titled ‘Animal’ at the Bourdelle Museum in Paris. In 2001 she had her first solo exhibition at the Foret gallery and her last one in 2014. From 14 December 2021 to 28 January 2022, the exhibition, ‘The imaginary world of Rosine Baldaccini’, was presented by Clavé Fine Art. At the occasion of the centenary of César’s birth, and taking place in the studio that was his for more than 30 years, Clavé Fine Art paid tribute to the wife of the sculptor, presenting a selection of her aquarelles, bronzes and painted plaster.