19th & 20th Century European Sculpture

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Lot 49
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Ary Bitter French, 1883-1973

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Description

  • Ary Bitter
  • éléphants presse papiers (A pair of elephant bookends)
  • signed on plaque attached to mount: ARY BITTER SCLP / SUSSE FRES EDRS PARIS
  • bronze, dark brown patina on wood mounts (2)

Catalogue Note

A pupil of Jules Coutan, Bitter exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1910 until the outbreak of the Second World War, winning a gold medal in 1924. His humorous and stylized twist on the animalier genre successfully assimilated Art Deco style into a more traditional sculpture context. He also modelled book ends in the forms of a pair of antelopes and a pair of polar bears.

RELATED LITERATURE
Payne, p.396, Bénézit, vol II, p. 354