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Marcel Antoine Gimond (1894–1961) was a French sculpture known for his busts, statues, and portraits in bronze.
Garlanded with the Grand Prix National des Arts in 1957, Gimond, who was the son of a metal-worker, is considered to be France's last great portraitist or sculptor of the bust. The possessor of a vast sculptural knowledge, Gimond was famed for his purified style which sought the permanence of forms beneath his subjects' individuality .
Marcel Gimond maintained a concise critique of sculpture, and taught that monumentality in sculpture was universal throughout the of the world, in recognition of the varied sculptural achievements of , Khmer people, or pre-Columbian art; holding that " Art is a language, the sole which has the privilege to be universal, and which, across frontiers, can unite all that which is not alien to Human."
Gimond is known for his many heads and portraits of political and artistic figures and his distinctive bronze busts and these are to be seen in numerous in France, Luxembourg, and in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Gimond's students include artists William McVey and Hugo Weber.Gilbert, Dorothy B., ‘ Who's Who in American Art 1962, R. R. Bowker Company, New York, 1962 p, 416
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