New episode with Daphné Du Barry: What is beauty?
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Listen to Daphné Du Barry: What is beauty?
Celebrated figurative sculptor Daphné Du Barry speaks seven languages and modelled for Salvador Dali in her 20s. She discusses her bronzes, her love of learning and her faith.
Daphné Du Barry in her studio. Photo: MUSA
Born in Holland, Daphné studied at Munich University and afterwards, at McGill in Canada. Later she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study modern literature. She had a brief career as a chanteuse in Paris and then became an artist.
She studied drawing with the Hungarian master Akos Szabo, then in Florence she learnt from Marcello Tommasi, one of the great masters of classical figurative sculpture.
Daphné Du Barry, D’Artagnan in Gascony. Photo: Antonio Cozza
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Sarah Monk
producer, Materially Speaking