Edouard Drouot

Dancer

1900

Beautiful Art Nouveau marble. Campagne, Pierre Étienne Daniel French , 19th century , male. Active in Paris. Born 1851 , in Gontaud (Lot-et-Garonne). S...

Pascal "Bugs" Jarrion was born in Perpignan, France, a region known for its Catalan culture and an area that has influenced many artists before him including Picasso, Van Gogh and Ma...

ITZAK BENSHALOM "FIRST LOVE" SIGNED, NUMBERED 12/50 ISRAEL, DATED 1979 28 X 10 INCHES ARTIST TITLED Itzak Benshalom 1945-2018 Born in Hadera, Isr...

SEMION RABINKOV "UNICYCLE HORN PLAYER" BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 1/9 MOLDOVAN-AMERICAN, C.1990'S 27.5 INCHES Semion was born in Chisinau, Moldova, 1954...

ANTONIUCCI VOLTI "RECLINGING WOMAN" BRONZE, SIGNED, NUMBERED 2/6 VALSUANI FOUNDRY ITALiAN, WORKED IN PARIS, C.1960 6.5 X 18.5 X 10.5 INCHES Antoniucci Volti 1915-1989 Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Antoniucci Volti was born in Albano, Italy, in 1915. His family lived in Italy until 1920 when the family moved to France. Volti studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Nice from 1928 to 1920. By 1932 the young artist had won a gold medal for two polychrome bas-reliefs before going to Paris, where he entered the studio of Jean Boucher at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of only fifteen. After serving in the Second World War, when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Bavaria, he returned in poor health to Paris, only to find his studio destroyed. From 1947 he showed work at various Paris Salons and, in 1954 and 1955 at the Brussels and Antwerp Biennales. In 1957 a retrospective of his work was organized at the Museum Rodin in Paris. He died in Paris in 1989 Works by Volti are in leading museums such as the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Antoniucci Volti is one of the most important Late Modern...

PIERRE LE FAGUAYS "WATER CARRIER" BRONZE AND ALABASTER, SIGNED ELECTRIFIED FRANCE, C.1925 15.5 INCHES A French sculptor of lithe female f...

"The Song" by Félix Charpentier (1858-1924) A very fine bronze sculpture with nuanced dark brown patina Signed "Fx. Charpentier" Cast by "E. Colin & Cie Paris" France around 1900 he...

Nature unveiling in front of Science by Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) Bronze sculpture with multiple patina. Signed "E. Barrias" on the side of the base cast by "Susse Frères" (foundry mark and stamp) The model of this statue was commissioned in 1889 to decorate the new medical school in Bordeaux. When he had finished the first version in white marble for the school, Barrias designed a second marble and onyx statue in 1899 for the ceremonial staircase of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers in Paris. France circa 1900 height 58 cm Biography : Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) was a French sculptor . He came from a family of artists. His father was a porcelain painter and his older brother, Felix-Joseph Barrias, a recognized painter. Louis-Ernest Barrias entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1858, he abandoned painting to move towards sculpture under the direction of François Jouffroy. In 1864, he won the Prix de Rome, on the theme of "The Foundation of Marseille", and was engaged on the site of the Paris Opera house. He later produced many sculpted works, most of them in marble. In 1881, Louis-Ernest Barrias was awarded a medal of honor of the fine arts and named knight of the Legion of Honor in 1878, then promoted officer in 1881 and commander in 1900. The artist replaced Auguste Dumont at the Institute in 1884, then succeeded Jules Cavelier as a professor at the School of Fine Arts, where, among his most notable students, there were Victor Ségoffin, Charles Despiau and Paul Landowski.

"Woman-Flower" Lamp by MARS-VALLETT (1869-1957) Art Nouveau sculpture forming a table lamp, made in gilded bronze with two light arms Signed on the base "Mars-Vallett" Old edition ast France circa 1900 height (without light bulbs) 35 cm width 25 cm Biography: Mars-Vallett, pseudonym of François Marius Vallet (1869-1957), was a French caricaturist and sculptor. Son of a marble worker from Chambéry, Mars-Vallett was a student at the Paris School of Fine Arts. Working as a caricaturist during his youth, he worked for numerous Parisian publications such as the newspaper “Soleil du Dimanche”. Mars-Vallett won several awards at the Salon of French Artists and the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts. He was also the curator of the Savoy museum in 1904 and the Charmettes museum (Jean-Jacques Rousseau's house) in 1907. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Friends of Old Chambéry in 1933. During his life in Paris, Mars-Vallett received visits to his studio, among others, from Auguste Rodin and Albert Bartholomé. He was very close with the painter François Cachoud...

Maurice Bouval French Art Nouveau Gilt and Silvered Bronze Figural Vide Poche Cast from a model by Maurice Bouval, cast by Jollet & Cie., Paris, circa 1900 Modeled as a maiden in a ...

L'alsacienne Or Bretonne aux Rameau silver overlay patina by Leo Laporte Blairsy (French, 1867-1923). Depicting a woman in robe holding a garnet of flowers with a L'alsacienne or Bre...

Late 19th-century bronze figure derived from a work by Jean Michel-Angel Pollet-a Palermo artist of French parents who was a pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen and Peter Tenerani - titled ...