BLIND POILU IS EXHIBITOR.
PARIS, June 9.--Exhibit No. 5514 at the salon of French artists in the Grand Palais is u ■ small statue of a French !milu leaning on bis rifle. It was submitted by Bernard Fedot with thousands of other slntiues in competition for a place in the salon and the award to Fedot was made by judges who had no knowledge of the sculptor. It now becomes known that Bernard Fedot is an ex-poilu who was blinded by a German shell, which tore away half his face. Invalided ' back to his home in La Chapelle Yielle Forele, in Ihe department ol’ Yvonne, a peasant who had had no dealings with earth before except with a spade, set to work, without a teacher, to learn to model figures, using earth from, the garden lie used to tenet m'lieti he could see. After tlnce years he exhibits in the National Salon.
The announcement has drawn great attention to the statue, and before long it is probable Hint Fedot will find himself tlie possessor of ample means to ciiii-v on his work.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15594, 10 August 1921, Page 8
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