Null Pierre le Faguays 1892-1962, Ballerina with Garland | Art Deco bronze sculp…

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Pierre le Faguays 1892-1962, Ballerina with Garland | Art Deco bronze sculpture of a ballerina with a garland, on bronze base, signed, dimensions: height 54 cm, width 41 cm

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Pierre le Faguays 1892-1962, Ballerina with Garland | Art Deco bronze sculpture of a ballerina with a garland, on bronze base, signed, dimensions: height 54 cm, width 41 cm

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[VOYAGE] GUYOTAT (Pierre). Carnets de Bord, Volume 1 1962-1969. Published by Leo Scheer in 2005. In-8 format, paperback. Black illustrations in text, facsimile. Very good condition.

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Max le Verrier, Bulldog 1930s, signed to the side of the plinth, stamped France, cast metal with green patina, depicting a seated bulldog in strict, minimally abstracted lines, on a round plinth, damage to the right in front of the hind leg, h 11 cm. Artist information: actually Louis Octave Maxime Le Verrier, French sculptor (1891 Neuilly-sur-Seine - 1973 Paris), son of a Parisian goldsmith and jeweller, attended various schools, including the École des Roches in Verneuil-sur-Avre, was forced by his father to study agriculture in Saint-Sever and La Réole, returned to Paris in 1907 and worked in odd jobs, worked in a flying school, maintained aeroplanes and obtained a pilot's licence, with which he was deployed in the First World War and shot down. He was classified as missing in action, received the French military medal and the Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, during his imprisonment in Münster he turned to sculpture, made friends with other artists in the camp and painted portraits of fellow prisoners, In 1917 he came to Switzerland on a prisoner exchange, studied there at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva together with Marcel Bouraine and Pierre Le Faguays, they remained lifelong friends and worked together, returning to France after the war, At the beginning of the 1920s, he inherited a small foundry where he realised his artistic ideas and worked for the artists Pierre Le Faguay, Marcel Bouraine, André Vincent Becquerel and Jules Edmont Masson, working with various materials, exhibited at the salons of the Société des artistes décorateurs, of which he was an elected member, as well as at numerous other exhibitions, he won a gold medal at the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modernes in 1925, he was particularly well known for his Art Deco figurines, in the 2nd World War he joined the Résistance. During the Second World War he joined the Resistance and his house was used as a dead letter box, he had to flee with his family to the south of France and only returned to his looted premises after the war, he worked in the field of sculpture until his death and was buried near his friend Pierre Le Faguays. Source: Wikipedia.de.

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