MICHEL DECOUX (1837-1924). "Femme agenouillée", ca. 1920. Sculpture in patinated bronze on onyx pedestal. Signed. Measurements: 18 x 18 x 8 cm. Sculpture representing a young woman kneeling and half-naked caressing her hair. The lines of the hair announce the geometry of the Art Deco movement that will have full development in the thirties of the twentieth century, abandoning the marked sinuosity of modernism and far from nineteenth-century naturalism.

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