Marcel-Andre Bouraine
Born in Pontoise (Seine-et Oise), he studied under
Jean-Alexndre-Joseph Falguiere (1881 - 1900), who had reintroduced and
emphasized realism in nineteenth-century sculpture. Bouraine was
captured in Germany during the First World War, and interned in
Switzerland. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries. The
following year he began to exhibit at the Salon d'Autommne. He
executed small-scale sculptures for several French firms, including
Susse Freres, Max Le Verrier and Austria's Arthur Goldscheider, often
exhibiting with the latter's La Stele and L'Evolution groups. In 1928
Gabriell Argy-rousseau (1885- 1953) commissioned a number of figurines
from Bouraine, mostly female nudes, but also a fountain and an
illuminated group, all of which were executed in colored, translucent
pate de verre. He executed two major commissions for the 1937 Paris
International Exhibition.
