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Quiet, well-dressed Sculptor Poisson, 45, is one of those conscientious, undistinguished artists who abound in every country and whom only politicians seem to know. Art dealers know him only as a man who has done many a job for the government and as a friend of the great French sculptor, Charles Despiau. Commenting last week on the new and old Mariannes, the French weekly Vu wrote...
...amusement and edification of the San Francisco public, Conservatives and Modernists were at it again last week. An organization known as the "Progressive Group of California Painters & Sculptors" held an exhibition in the City of Paris department store, an exhibition which they loudly proclaimed had been rejected as "too extreme" by the imposingly colonnaded Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. Eastern critics were bewildered. No longer ago than October the Legion of Honor Palace gave California its first view of the work of Isamu Noguchi, about as "extreme" a sculptor as the U. S. contains...
...Progressives' show did nothing else it reminded people of Sculptor Bufano and the mystery of his great statue of St. Francis. Beniamino Bufano, brother of Puppeteer Remo Bufano, was born in Italy about 1890, went to New York as a child. In his early 20's he won a sculpture prize from the old Whitney Studio Club, ancestor of the Whitney Museum of American Art. During the War he put the trigger finger of his right hand on a block, chopped it off to avoid killing his fellow men. Later he carved a crucifix in which the Christ...
There he let it be known that he had a commission. A number of rich citizens of San Francisco had given him money to carve a gigantic statue of St. Francis of Assisi for the top of Telegraph Hill-San Francisco's arty quarter. Sculptor Bufano acquired three enormous blocks of Swedish black granite and went to work...
...took him a year. He worked in a field outside Paris because his figure, 25 ft. high, 10 ft. thick at the base, was too big to get in any studio. It was the coldest winter France had known for half a century. Sculptor Bufano broke scores of tools on the tough granite before he found a special U. S. steel tool that would last nearly a fortnight. Finally his St. Francis was finished. Sculptor Bufano was out $2,400 of his own money. He moved his St. Francis into a barn, neglected even to have it photographed. From under...