Pair of French Modern Cream Marble Figural Tabletop Sculptures

PAIR of French Art Deco white marble base bookends with gilt metal and bone trim harlequin figures. (PRICED AS PAIR)

French Art Deco Limestone Figural Sculpture, Luciene Gibert

Alabaster sculpture designed and produced by Mario Urbani in 1930, Volterra. Single piece. Biography Urbani, Mario, architect, painter, artist, (Rome 1885 - Pesaro 1961), SIUSA Mario Urbani studied at the School of Fine Arts in Rome and attended the Architecture Course, graduating in 1909. He worked for three years as a technical draughtsman in the State Railways, then attended the Higher School of Painting of Aristide Sartorio, with whom he made, in 1910-11, some frescoes in the Parliament Hall that celebrated the history of Italy, whose sketches were exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1909. In the same years he worked alongside some Roman architects: Bazzani, Calderini, Garroni, Pazzi, Pio Piacentini, Pistrucci and Quaroni, contributing to the design of the pavilions for the Universal Exposition in Rome, in 1911, on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Rome. In that year, after winning a national competition, he furnished the courthouse of Rome and also executed some frescoes, still extant, at the Viminale and the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce inspired by De Carolis, artist present in Rome at the end of the nineteenth century, beginning of the twentieth century. Soon after Urbani began his career as a teacher in Sant'Angelo in Vado, at the Zuccari School of Art. In this town he made late decorations - liberty in a mill, a monument to the fallen, a large copper plate...

Pair of French Cast Stone Statues. Fantastic pair of mid-century decorative sculptures. Nice quality and design. Large: Base- 31 7/8" x 20" Height- 64 1/2" Small: Base- 19 3/4" x 1...