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Bouraine, Marcel - Art Deco Bronze

Currency:USD Category:Art Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,300.00 USD
Bouraine, Marcel - Art Deco Bronze
<Our item number 122723><B>Bouraine, Marcel &#40;1886-1948&#41;.</B> Art Deco period &#40;c. 1925&#41; bronze of a young woman balancing on one foot, on stepped base of fine Belgian black marble, with tan veining. The top step inscribed: &#34;Bouraine.&#34; The scuplture&#39;s gilt&#40;?&#41; finish rubbed away in areas. Sculpture needs to be re-attached to base, which is also in need of some modest restoration. Overall height: 11-3/4&#34;. Work a good French mix of playfulness and sensuality. <BR><BR>Marcel-Andre Bouraine was born in Pontoise, France, and studied under J. Falguiere &#40;1881 - 1900&#41;, who had reintroduced a harder realism to nineteenth-century French sculpture. After WWI, Bouraine began to exhibit at the Salon des Tuileries. The following year he was at the Salon d&#39;Autommne. He specialised in small-scale sculptures of playful nude women, often for several French firms, including Susse Freer, La Verrier, and Arthur Goldscheider. Some later commissions, again mostly female nudes, were e xecuted in colored, translucent pate de verre. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;1,000-1,300. <BR><BR>Our item number 122723<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/43jpegs/122723.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>