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  Marcel Bouraine, Pair of French Art Deco “Dove” Bookends c. 1930

  Marcel Bouraine (active 1925-1930) France.

  Pair of Art Deco “Dove” sculptural bookends, circa 1930.

  Silvered bronze (sand cast technique) in the form of doves with openly displayed and fan shaped tail feathers perched on roof pan tiles.

  Marks: Bouraine (2x), #’s 52 and 53.

  For more information and other works by Bouraine see: Les Echoes D’Art (May 1927), p. 21; Art Deco Sculpture, Bryan Catley; The Art Deco Style, Selected by Theodore Menten (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), p. 172; Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, E. Bénézit, vol. 2 (Paris: Librarie Grund, 1976), p. 231, An Encylopedia of Art Deco, Edited by Alastair Duncan (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988) pp. 26,28-29,31,104; Art Deco, Victor Arwas (New York, Harry Abrams,1980) pp. 163, 269.

  H: 5 ¾” x W: 4 ½” x D: 3 ½”

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  Sevard / French Art Deco Dinanderie vase with fish fins c. 1925

  SEVARD  France (active 1920’s/1930’s)

  Dinanderie vase  with fish fins c. 1925

  Hand wrought and hand hammered copper with a rich chocolate-brown
  patination and bronze fin-like handles, gilt detailing

  Marks:  Sevard (inscribed signature), “France”

  H:  7 7/8”  x  W:  8 3/4”

   

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  Andree Flamant-Ducany-Gide / Valsuani Foundry French Cubist bronze “African” mask sculpture 20th Century

  ANDREE FLAMANT-DUCANY-GIDE (1882-1970) France
  VALSUANI FONDEUR (1899-1981) Paris, France

  Cubist mask sculpture  20th Century

  Cast bronze with rich brown-black patina (possibly cast at a later date by the Valsuani Foundry)

  Marks: G. Flamant, 2/8 C. Valsuani Cire Perdue (signed on chin)

  H: 11” x W: 7” x D: 5 ½”;
  On stand: H: 18 ½”

  Price: $35,000

  ANDREE FLAMANT-DUCANY-GIDE
  Flamant-Gide was born in Nimes, France on January 2nd, 1892 and died on March 28th 1970.  She was both a painter and sculptor and exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artists Francais beginning in 1923. She sculpted in an angular Cubist style influenced by African Art and was a fellow artist of Joseph Csaky, Gustave Miklos, Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens who were considered the leading Art Deco sculptors in Paris during the 1920’s.

  CUBISM

  Cubism drew its influence from: Cezanne’s structural analysis in his oil landscapes, e.g. ‘La Montagne Sainte Victorie’ c.1887; Gauguin’s figurative landscapes, e.g. ‘Haymaking’ 1889; and African tribal Art such as Gabon masks. European artists were greatly influenced by African and Oceanic Art during the late 1890s and early 1900s. African sculpture, with its bold shapes and lines, had a great impact on the development of Cubism. Maurice de Vlaminck became a keen admirer and collector of African masks after seeing them in a Paris anthropological museum. He purchased similar masks and his excitement for these works displaying bold primitive expressions and simplistic design filtered through to Matisse, Derain, Gris and Picasso, who all became collectors as well. By the 1920s African art exhibitions were common in Paris and other cities throughout Europe.
  Cubist sculpture brought the simplified shapes of Cubist painting together with the three-dimensional modeling medium of sculpture. The first Cubist sculpture, which could be properly deemed as such was made by Picasso in 1909 and was titled ‘Head of a Woman’. However Picasso did experiment with sculptural forms as early as 1907 when he found himself fascinated and deeply influenced by African masks. Cubist sculpture was mostly reminiscent of Analytical Cubism in its stripping away of illusionist details to reveal the fundamental form contained in each individual subject, be it human or still-life.

  VALSUANI FOUNDRY
  The Valsuani foundry was started by the brothers Claude and Attilio Valsuani who learned the foundry trade while employed at the Hebrard foundry.  While working for Hebrard, Claude Valsuani showed great promise as a finisher and eventually worked his way up to become the Technical Director of the Hebrard foundry. In 1899 Claude Valsuani started his own foundry in Chatillon, casting mostly small works for various artists primarily using the lost wax technique of casting (cire perdue). In 1905 he moved his foundry to 74 Rue des Plantes in Paris. Among the famous sculptors who had the Valsuani foundry cast their works were: Renoir, Picasso, Despiau, Paul Troubetzkoy, Matisse, and Gaugin. Claude Valsuani died in 1923 in his native Italy but his son, Marcele then took over the foundry and continued the tradition of producing extremely fine bronzes until the 1970’s.

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  Jean Despres, French Art Deco Modernist Covered Centerpiece c. 1940

  Jean Despres (1889-1980) France.

  Modernist covered centerpiece, circa 1940.

  Hand-wrought and hand-hammered silver plate.

  Marks: J. Despres (script incised signature on the edge on one handle),
  JD French Jean Despres touchmark (2x).

  For related works see: Jean Després: Maestro Orafo Tra Art Déco e Avanguardie, Melissa Gabardi (Milano: IDEA Books, 1999) Metallkunst: Kunst vom Jugendstil zur Moderne (1889-1939) Band IV, Karl H. Brohan (Berlin: Brohan-Museum, 1990); Silver of a New Era: International Highlights of Precious Metalwork from 1880 to 1940 (Rotterdam: Museum Boymans van-Beuningen, 1992)

  H: 5 ¼” x W: 11 ½” x diameter: 8 ¾”