Gaston Le Bourgeois

Genet

circa 1925

Ermine by Almaric WALTER (1870-1959) Sculpture made in green and brown opaque glass paste representing an ermine signed on the base " H. Bergé sc. " et " A. Walter Nancy " Franc...

Pyrenean bear sitting by Georges GUYOT (1885-1972) Sculpture in bronze with a nuanced black patina Signed " Guyot " on the base Cast by Martin Canal, without founder mark France circa 1935 Height 18,4 cm Width 17 cm Depth 18 cm Biography : Georges Lucien Guyot (1885-1973) known as Georges Guyot was a French animal artist. From an early age, he showed artistic abilities, but the modest conditions of his parents did not allow him to study art. He was doing his apprenticeship with a woodcarver. Guyot then excelled at copying works of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but soon he showed a special attraction for nature. This attraction led him to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris where he could study wild animals and translated his observations into sculpture and painting. As a famous figure of Montmartre, he was the host of the Bateau-Lavoir from the time of Cubism. In 1931, Georges Guyot joined the group of "The Twelve", created by François Pompon and Jane Poupelet, gathering sculptors like Marcel Lémar, Paul Jouve, André Margat, Jean-Claude de Saint-Marceaux, Georges Hilbert, or even the painter Adrienne Jouclard...

Artist: Marian Weisberg, American XXth Title: Opossum Year: circa 1969 Medium: Resin-cast Sculpture, signature inscribed on base Size: 7 x 7 x 3.5 in. (17.78 x 17.78 x 8.89 cm)

Impressive Art Deco Bronze Sculpture of a Panther by Emile Louis Bracquemond, bronze with black patina, on a Belgian black marble base. Signed and with founders signature Etling Par...