Art Deco Bronze of a Flying Duck by Andre Vincent Becquerel

Art Deco bronze sculpture bird on horseshoe by André Vincent Becquerel, bronze with green patina on a Belgian black marble base. France 1930. ...

Whirling, spectacular circular marble centerpiece with a bronze sculpture of two dancing girls holding hands by the French artist Andre Gilbert, circa 19...

Art Deco bronze sculpture whale in the waves by Marcel André Bouraine Bronze with silver patine, alabaster waves, on a Belgian Black marble bas...

Art Deco bronze sculpture of 3 athletes, Allegory of speed by Robert Delandre. La Vitesse. Patinated bronze on a Belgian Black marble base. With foun...

André Vincent BECQUEREL bronze Trouts figurine, Artist’s edition, France 1930s. A beautiful, authentic representation of two Trouts in green and brown ...

Pair of silver plated bronze bookends depicting two horses seating on a marble by André Vincent Becquerel Made in France Circa:1930 Signatur...

ANDRÉ-VINCENT BECQUEREL French, 1893-1981 Leaping Stag and Hind Verdigris patinated bronze Signed "A. BECQUEREL", "cire purdue", "Susse Fr. Edt. Paris"...

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...