Gérard Mannoni

Gérard Mannoni (1 January 1928 – 1 April 2020) was a French sculptor. He was born in Bastia. He studied at the École des Métiers d'Art, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, the Académie Julian, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. 
He worked in the workshops of Marcel Gimond, Hubert Yencesse, and Ossip Zadkine. Mannoni made his first group exhibition at the Galerie Breteau in a group with André Bloc, Robert Jacobsen, Marino Di Teana, Claude Parent, and others.
Mannoni died on 1 April 2020 in Viry-Châtillon at the age of 92 of COVID-19.