French Art Deco Figural Bronze
Goddess \ Diana the Huntress Statue
In the manner of Marcel Bouraine
Circa 1930's, France 
Fabulous, sleek and stylized figural
bronze of Diana the Huntress, with her bow.
Her hair is blowing in the wind, she is perched down on one knee,
taking aim at her target.
Rich, beautiful green mottled patina. Truly one of the best bronze
Diana statues we've ever seen.
Large scale and very heavy-low
profile bronze statue, ideal to grace your sideboard,
console table or even a very large coffee table.
You may also wish to display this as a centerpiece on a rectangular
shaped dining table.
Marked in the bronze: Bronze, France, Cire Perdue.
Sadly, we cannot find the artist signature, perhaps it was inscribed
in a marble base,
as this came to us without a base and does not have posts that
usually are found to attach to a base.
It looks fine without a base so making a new marble base is
optional.
Bouraine created several sleek and stylized Diana statues, as a
hunter and as a Amazon warrior.
Dimensions: 28 1/4" wide, 12 1/2"
high, 5 1/2" deep.
Condition: In very good
condition, with one past repair on the bow center.
Please see photos below.
Item # DAS73:
Price: $ 10,000.
Bio: Marcel Bouraine (French, 1886-1948)
Marcel-Andre Bouraine Born in Pontoise (Seine-et Oise), he studied under
Jean-Alexandre-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 Freer, La Verrier, and
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.
Additional pictures below:
