Bronze Owl Titled "Grand Duc" by Francois Pompon

A stoneware horizontal Ovid form / square when looking from above with smooth incised lines applied to two corners.

A bronze sculpture on marble base by Emile Gilioli entitled "La Petite Sphere". This piece will be included in "The Forth Coming" catalog which is being produced by The Gilioli Archive. "Emile Gilioli was born to a family on Italian shoemakers who had settled beside the Canal Saint-Martin. After the first World War, the family moved back towards Italy, settling in Nice. In 1932, Gilioli took courses at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs de Nice, notably with the future artist Marie Raymond. During the Second World War, Gilioli was mobilized in Grenoble where he passed the remainder of the conflict. He made the acquaintance of Andry Fracy, a conservationist at the Grenoble Musee des baux-arts and led him to discover cubism. After the war, Gilioli settled in Saint-Martin-de-La-Cluze near Grenoble, where he sculpted in his workshop. His art was associated in a certain way with the deeds of the French Renaissance. He became friendly with Thomas Gleb...

A fine textured bronze casting of "Ours Blanc" after Francois Pompon. Deep brown unpolished bronze patina. signed P.P to underside.

François Pompon, signed. Atelier Valsuani, edited by. Sculpture titled “Oie”. Bronze with green patina, lost wax casting. Stamp of the Foundry “cire perdue C. Valsuani“, on the pli...