2827 - Jan and Joël Martel (1896, Nantes – 1966, Paris), after

Jan and Joël Martel (1896, Nantes – 1966, Paris), after "La Trinité." Original title Bronze, with a dark patina. Posthumous, contemporary 21st-century casting based on the Cubist-style sculpture created in 1930 by the two Martel brothers, which depicts a family of three—father, mother, and child—in the form of a stele. In 1930, they exhibited the plaster model for the first time at “Le premier salon de l’Union des Artistes Modernes” (see “Art et Décoration,” vol. 58, August 1930, p. 41). The two prominent sculptors and interior designers shared a studio and designed their works together. The Martel brothers participated in exhibitions at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon d’Automne, and the Salon des Tuileries in Paris, as well as in the legendary “Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modernes” of 1925 in Paris, which gave the Art Deco style its name. H. 102.5 cm. After Jan and Joël Martel (1896–1966). Dark-patinated bronze. A posthumous, 21st-century cast based on the sculpture conceived by the Martel brothers in 1930.