Bouraine : Tall 16" bronze Lady with birds
Marcel Bouraine : Lady with birds.
Tall 16" (41cm) high art deco silver plated bronze sculpture signed MATTO on foot.
"Matto" is Known to be a Marcel Bouraine Pseudonym.
I have already seen this sculpture, twice on the marked, each time signed Bouraine.
excellent quality. Circa 1930.
Marcel-Andre Bouraine (1886-1948) Born in Pontoise (France), 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'Automne. He executed small-scale sculptures for several French firms, including Susse Freres, Le 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