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Circa 1930s Art Deco French Bronze Paperweight
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Art Deco French Bronze Paperweight
C1930
ArtDeco Style Medal designed in Bronze by Marcel Renard *
Paperweight in the form …
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Art Deco French Bronze Paperweight
C1930
ArtDeco Style Medal designed in Bronze by Marcel Renard *
Paperweight in the form of Canoeing Medal given when you
have won a race canoeing down the Garrone River in Gascony France
Its 3" aprox and is in very good condition we buffd it a bit but left the age and patina intact
More about the Artist...
French sculptor and medallist, Marcel Renard, a Rome Prize winner, studied first in Lyon under his father, the sculptor Leopold Renard (1868-1870), subsequently with Jean-Marie Boucher (1870-1939) and Auguste Patey (1855-1930) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was the standard bearer of an elegant and refined neoclassical style.
One of the most famous medalists of his age, Renard produced several hundred works for the Paris Mint – medals of rivers (The Seine, The Loire, The Rhone, The Garonne, The Rhine and The Meuse) and plaquettes, Young Girl with Doves, The Exchange and Jules Massenet , among many others.
Renard also realized public monuments in the round, fountains and sculptures for the Salon International des Arts Decoratifs of 1925, which gave birth to the expression Art Deco. Marcel Renard won a gold medal at this event.
In addition to his work as a medallic sculptor, Renard created elaborate interior decors for luxury ocean liners, such as the Ile de France. In this capacity, he collaborated regularly with friend and colleague, the monumental sculptor Alfred Janniot (Rockefeller Center, Palais de Tokyo.) Renard also realized numerous interior decorations with the architect Roux-Spitz.
The Birth of Venus is one of Renard’s principal works of the mid-1920s. It was conceived as the central figure of a fountain. The sinuous goddess, draped in a diaphanous fabric that clings to her body, is attached mid-calf to an asymmetrical, stepped base, indicating that she rises from the water. The work, graciously stylized, an Art Deco apotheosis of the female form, is a twentieth century counterpart to the elegant nudes of the nineteenth century French sculptor, James Pradier. Renard’s treatment of drapery is artful. From the frontal standpoint, it subtly reveals
the bather’s charms and on the figure’s proper left side, a “scalloped” border of fabric (suggesting the Pecten Maximus, the coquille Saint Jacques of the sculptor’s Renaissance predecessor, Botticelli) flutters in the breeze. The artist embellishes the verso of his sculpture with an abstraction. Unique in form, it is the indefinable amalgamation of fabric and seashell.
According to Greek myths, Venus was born from water. Renard’s sculpture, made for water, is in complete harmony with it. The purity of close-grained Michelangelo marble and its glowing whiteness enhance the goddess’s’ divine presence, and the rivulets that cascade rhythmically, when water descends along the folds of fabric, caress her form and exalt the fluid element from which she emerges.
Sculptures by Renard are held by many important public collections, including that of the Dansmuseet , Stockholm; the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Lyons; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (six works); the Design Museum, Ghent and the Musée des Années Trente, Boulogne Billancourt, near Paris, the principal French museum dedicated to the Art Deco movement.
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