Large Art Deco Era Bronze Figural Group of a Girl with Two Panthers

The impressively scaled foo dogs are a proper pair - one posed left , the other right. Both are fashioned with quartz eyes and mica and other inlays. The patinated figures are emb...

A good casting of a youth carving a torch. A fine Grand Tour piece.

Ready for your "potted palm". A superbly sculpted cold painted figure of a "harem" girl standing adjacent to a planter which is appointed with "sphinx" heads. The piece is generously...

Dramatic pose - inscribed "Tigre Furieux Per Clem" and singed by the artist.

A proper pair - right and left facing. The bronzes have expressive faces with protruding tongues and are posed with paws raised to indicate that they are at attention. An outstandin...

An exceptionally fine casting, a richly detailed and beautiful bronze. Good patina accents with a stone base. An excellent study by the iconic artist.

Beautiful bronze Art Deco group of two panthers by the French artist Dominique Jean Baptiste Hugues. The sculpture has a lovely patina and stands on a Portoro marble base with onyx i...

Cute Italian bronze figure of a pigtailed little girl laying on her belly with her legs crossed enjoying a book. Weathered patina. Early 20th c...

A large French Art Deco bronze sculpture of a gazelle in bronze with parcel gilt and silver on fluted self base. This rare and artistic damascened, non inlaid finish epitomizes the...

Impressive Italian hand carved white marble figure of a man behind a semi nude standing woman in a very romantic scene. unsigned. Meticulous attention ...

A contemporary lost wax cast bronze sculpted group depicting two dogs climbing up a tree with hand-applied bronze patina. Created with the traditional technique of the lost-wax (à la...

A rare and fabulous French Art Deco large bronze signed sculpture of a bunting panther by Andre Vincent Becquerel, French, 1893-1981 This lovely cast, in a warm dark brown patina with green undertones is sculpted with highly stylized anatomical details. The sculpture rests on self base. Becquerel's favorite subject matter was cats. He often captured them in a natural setting, stretching, stalking, clawing at a tree stump or walking in tandem. The model offered here with the panther bunting/rubbing against a stump of a tree is a rare version. This innate feline behavior is seen as a sign of affection, or of a transfer of their scent to claim territory or marking you as a friend. Becquerel was born in northern France. He attended the École des Beaux-arts in Paris and studied in the ateliers of Hector Lemaître and Prosper Lecourtier, the Animalier sculptor. He also worked with Charles Valton, who had studied under both Barye and Fremiet, two other renown animalier sculptors. He began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1914 and continued to do so for the rest of his career. In 1944 Becquerel was awarded a bronze medal by The ‘Artistes Français’ and a gold medal in 1945. In 1952 he won the Prix de l’Yser, which made him hors concours and thus above the future competition process. Cubist, Impressionism, Expressionism, Futurism, Modernism, Realism, Cubism, Piero Palazzolo...