BECQUEREL animal sculpture ART DECO Bronze birds on branch -1930

  
Sculpture Animamière in green patinated cast iron on black marble. Spectacular sculpture in antique green patinated cast iron. In bronze of birds on a branch. Sculpture of birds on a branch, one of which is on its nest. On a veined black marble base. In good condition, the casting can be dated around 1925/1930. Not signed but in the style of Vincent Becquerel. Signed on the branch: Bronze. Without foundry stamp or signature on the base (it may have been changed). (used condition) slight chip in the underside of a corner of the marble. Little is known about the origins of André-Vincent Becquerel, except that he was born on November 30, 1893 in Saint André Farivilliers in the Oise, within a family of scientists famous since the 19th century. Among its members is Henri Becquerel, co-inventor of radioactivity and Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.

The artistic temperament and attraction to sculpture of young André-Vincent manifested themselves from his childhood. He was 21 when he exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Artistes Français. His artistic production was interrupted during the Great War where he was mobilized in aviation. Later, he will create in Saint-Valery en Caux a monument in memory of aviators Costes and Bellonte for their crossing of the Atlantic. On the occasion of the 1937 Universal Exhibition, another monumental construction will be entrusted to him.

He reappeared at the Salon in 1921 with a first animal sculpture. An old guardian (Berger d'Alsace).

Then in 1922 with a. In stone, two works now dispa. Aware of his talent, the Susse house contacted him and signed a publishing contract with him for a few models. Around the 1930s, he worked with the Etling house for which he created some polychrome statuettes in the spirit of Chiparus composed of different materials ivory, enamels, gold highlights, such. He also made ceramic editions, especially Breton figurines.

However, for the most part of his work which is animal, he remains his own publisher, like most sculptors of his time, and will regularly present his new creations, bronzes and marbles, at the Salon until 1954. He will also specialize in the representation of delicately posed birds on branches, numerous variations, or fish evolving in the waves and among algae, rarer productions, which will meet a real success. Societarian of the Salon des Artistes Français, he obtained a bronze medal at the Salon in 1944, the gold medal in 1945 and the Yser Prize in 1952. The composition of his models testifies to both a simplifying drawing and an architectural construction which are the hallmark of powerful creators. Moreover, the details of the modeling, the "surface sculpture" so important for animal sculpture, are there to swell the volumes, which gives his bronzes, especially the wild animals, this astonishing presence found in the greatest animaliers.

Like Barye, Guyot, and Pompon, his works present a character of monumentality which is the manifest sign of great talents. All our items are antiques, they have a history and a story, that explains their possible small imperfections.

It is important to remember. The displayed price corresponds to a decent price. It will not be refunded. Only the amount of the object. Bank account CREDIT AGRICOLE CENTRE OUEST.

IBAN: FR76 1950 6400 0033 0419 6762 567.