"Muscular Men Bookends" by Jean Gregoire

Name: "Muscular Men Bookends" by Jean Gregoire
Brand: GREGOIRE, JEAN
SKU: 8202
Price: 1750 GBP
Availability: InStock

£1,750

Impressive early 20th Century Art Deco pair of bookends modelled in bronze with two muscular male athletes pushing hard against the shaped marble structure of the bookends. The bronze surface with excellent colour and very fine detail, signed E & H Gregoire on the marble surface

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Height: 19 cm

Condition: Excellent Original Condition

Circa: 1915

Materials: Patinated Bronze and Breche Marble

Book Ref Art Deco and Other Figures by Bryan Catley

SKU: 8021

ABOUT

Jean Louis Gregoire

Jean-Louis Gregoire (French, 1840 ~ 1890) was a Parisian sculptor working in the 19^th Century. He is particularly noted for his bronze and marble sculptures and figures.

Gregoire trained under the celebrated sculptor Jean Jules Salmson at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and his work was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1867. His bronze sculptures were often classical in nature and commonly took war and music as their themes, typical of the American Style in which he was trained.

The Art Deco Period

The Art Deco Period: although Art Deco derives its name from the great 1925 Paris Exhibition, ‘L’Exposition Internatlionale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes’, the term is now generally applied to the typical artistic productions of the 1920’s and 1930’s. It might best be characterised as an attempt to unite arts with industry, embracing the machine age and repudiating the old antithesis of ‘Fine’ and ‘Industrial’ art. The sources of the Art Deco movement include Egyptian and Mayan Art, Cubisim, Fauvism and Expressionism, heavily influencing the chief force underlying all Art Deco with the emphasis upon geometric patterns.

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