The Cabaret du Port du Salut was a famous... - Lot 0 - Euvrard & Fabre

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The Cabaret du Port du Salut was a famous... - Lot 0 - Euvrard & Fabre
The Cabaret du Port du Salut was a famous Left Bank cabaret, located at the corner of Rue Saint-Jacques; originally, the establishment was an inn built in the 18th century, which itself succeeded a tavern frequented in the 15th century by the poet François Villon. In 1955, Françoise Rosier, René Cozzano and Jacques Massebeuf transformed the inn into a cabaret. The establishment quickly became a famous address. Numerous artists made their debut there between 1955 and 1982: Barbara, Guy Bedos, Georges Moustaki, Jean Yanne, Anne Sylvestre, Gainsbourg, Jean Ferrat, Pierre Perret, Boby Lapointe, Coluche, Éric Vincent and Patrick Sébastien. Maury has moulded the faces of his two daughters, year after year, on their birthdays. Through this true artistic performance, he has built up an exceptional collection which has been acquired and exhibited by the Musée de l'Homme. Thanks to the work of Yvette Deloison, an anthropologist at the CNRS, these casts have also been used to establish measurements of faces in the search for missing children. The artist also has a link with the world of cinema. His casts of the faces of Bourvil, Lino Ventura and Yves Montand were used for special effects make-up. In addition, he made casts for the film The Longest Day, directed by Darryl F. Zanuck, to represent the soldiers who died on the beaches of the D-Day landings. His work has a mortuary dimension. With his experience in casting, he teaches face restoration to thanatopractors and works with a plastic surgeon to show patients a glimpse of their face after surgery. He has made death masks for many celebrities, starting with Sidney Bechet in 1959, and continuing with the no less famous Tino Rossi, Henri Vidal, Jacques Lacan, Louis Pauwels, Stéphane Grappelli, Georges van Parys and Robert Casadesus.
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