"La Danseuse Au Tambourin" by Jean Louis Grégoire

Statue in bronze with medal patina "Psyche and Cupid" realized by Jean BULIO. It represents Psyche, recognizable by her butterfly wingst. Her chest is bare and she is holding an arro...

Bronze sculpture with a brown patina shaded in green signed Pigalle on the base, representing a child surprised by a crayfish's pinching. Tears are running down the cheeks of the naked child, sitting on a large shell, as he has just been pinched by a crayfish. The sculpture rests on a green marble base. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle is a great French sculptor born in Paris in 1714. At a very young age, he studied sculpture and became aware that his art was the meaning of his life. He moved to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique. Then, he joined the Beaux-Arts, thanks to his work "Mercury attaching his heel" (1740) which had an immediate success. Several artists have a copy, painters represent it on their canvases, and a biscuit reduction is made by the manufacture of Sevres in 1770. Very quickly the orders multiplied and Mme de Pompadour took him under her wing. Juggling between baroque and classical styles, he made portraits of Diderot and Voltaire and then realized the famous funeral monuments...

A beautiful marble sculpture signed by Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914) depicting the bust of a gypsy woman with a confident, impertinent gaze, her hair tied in a scarf and adorned with...

Sculpture depicting "La Renommée" in bronze with brown patina by Julien Causse. This young woman draped, bare shoulders, blows in a reed-shaped horn. She seems to be rising from a ro...

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 soft covered trade catalogue of bedroom furniture and sets. Stylistically it looks to be dated from the late 1920s or 1930s; it would not have been before 1923 as that was the date...

This is a cold painted bronze figurine of a Turkish dancer with a Parrot, by or after Paul Philippe, made in France in the Art Deco period, circa 1920 ....

German Shepherd dog sculpture bookends by Louis-Albert Carvin. Dog Animalier Art Deco Sculpture Bookends in Marble and Silvered Metal. Pair of large Silvered Metal Sculptures of two...