F. Clemencin. Lady playing with a goat. Bronze sculpture. Foundry stamp
Francois Clemencin (1878-1950)
Lady playing with a goat.
Gilded bronze sculpture. Signed to the bronze. Foundry stamp (Meroni Radice).
Circa 1930.
Excellent condition.
32cm 15cm 29.5cm
Francois Clemencin :
Pupil of Jules Coutan, François Clémencin exhibited at the Salon of French artists in 1907 and received an honorable mention there that year. In 1921, he obtained a silver medal.
We owe him sensual or erotic bronze statuettes, war memorials and medals.
He is buried in the cemetery of Seyssel (Ain).
Meroni Radice foundry :
Joseph Meroni, an art foundry worker born in 1888 in Milan, and Angelo Radice, a modeler, joined forces to create a lost wax art foundry in Vanves under the company name “Meroni et Radice” in April 1921.
The stamp of these founders locates them in Paris: did their activity begin earlier in the capital? In any case, we know that Joseph Meroni's children were born in Italy, the last in 1918. The war made emigration before this date unlikely. Vanves being a suburban town bordering the capital, the founders were able to indicate Paris as a more prestigious mention.
Their advertisements appeared in the trade directory from 1924 to 1926. Joseph Meroni subsequently worked alone until 1937. He died in Genoa in 1940.
Among the artists Meroni Radice has worked for are Badece, Boudarel, Christophe, Despiau, Guyot, Pina, Vacossin and Villeneuve.
Lady playing with a goat.
Gilded bronze sculpture. Signed to the bronze. Foundry stamp (Meroni Radice).
Circa 1930.
Excellent condition.
32cm 15cm 29.5cm
Francois Clemencin :
Pupil of Jules Coutan, François Clémencin exhibited at the Salon of French artists in 1907 and received an honorable mention there that year. In 1921, he obtained a silver medal.
We owe him sensual or erotic bronze statuettes, war memorials and medals.
He is buried in the cemetery of Seyssel (Ain).
Meroni Radice foundry :
Joseph Meroni, an art foundry worker born in 1888 in Milan, and Angelo Radice, a modeler, joined forces to create a lost wax art foundry in Vanves under the company name “Meroni et Radice” in April 1921.
The stamp of these founders locates them in Paris: did their activity begin earlier in the capital? In any case, we know that Joseph Meroni's children were born in Italy, the last in 1918. The war made emigration before this date unlikely. Vanves being a suburban town bordering the capital, the founders were able to indicate Paris as a more prestigious mention.
Their advertisements appeared in the trade directory from 1924 to 1926. Joseph Meroni subsequently worked alone until 1937. He died in Genoa in 1940.
Among the artists Meroni Radice has worked for are Badece, Boudarel, Christophe, Despiau, Guyot, Pina, Vacossin and Villeneuve.
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