Raymond Corbin

(b Rochefort-sur-Mer, CharenteMaritime, 23 April 1907). French sculptor and medallist. He trained in Paris under Robert Wl?rick (1882-1944) at the Ecole des Arts Appliqu?s and also (1932-4) under Henry Dropsy (1885-1969) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1936 he won the Prix Blumenthal and in 1955 succeeded Dropsy as professor of medal engraving. Corbin's medals include portraits of L?on-Paul Fargue (1948), Marcel Pagnol (1951), L?on Jouhaux (1951) and Colette (1952), as well as thematic pieces, such as Agriculture (1950), Construction (1955) and the Three Monetary Metals (1958). These medals were cast or reduced from models, but in the 1960s Corbin turned towards the revival of direct die cutting in works such as the Twentieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man (1968) and the Centenary of the Commune (1971). In 1969 he was the first winner of the Germain Pilon prize and in 1970 was elected to the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts.

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