French sculptor
Auguste Rodin hired him as an assistant in 1907. The
Museum of Modern Art in New York owns the bronze
Assia, perhaps his best-known work. The largest collection is in his native Mont-de-Marsan, in a museum he shares with
Robert Wlérick, established in the
Donjon Lacataye. Despiau produced a total of 150 sculptures and 1,000 drawings over a fifty-year career. ==References==