An Art Deco bronze sculpture, France circa 1925, the stylised naked young woman feeding herself grapes, cold-painted silver, mounted on a black Belgian marble base.
This is a sculpture I have not seen before and although it is unsigned it is very close to the stylised works created by André Marcel Bouraine for Authur Goldscheider's group of artists known collectively as " La Stèle".
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.Art Deco sculptures are emblematic of the early 20th Century's embracing of dynamism, futurism and modernity and a lasting testament to their style is that they are still decorating the homes of the 21st Century.