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Directory: Fine Art: Sculpture: Bronze: Pre 1930: Item # 1459847

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L'Enfant Gallery
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Art Deco bronze urn: $44,000, reduced to $38,000 This Art Deco bronze figurative planter (jardiniere), circa 1920, measures 55" in height, 36" across (elbow to elbow), 18" deep.  caste bronze, 150-250 lb. This work was the combined effort of two French sculptors; Pierre Lenoir and Marcel Guillard (1896 - 1932). It is believed two castes of this sculpted urn were made.  Pierre Lenoir (1879 - 1953) was a French sculptor and medallist and was one of the Breton sculptors born in the 1880s who studied together at the École régionale des Beaux-Arts in Rennes; Jean Boucher, Louis-Henri Nicot, Armel-Beaufils, Paul Le Goff, Eloi Robert, Albert Bourget, and Francis Renaud. He was the son of the sculptor Charles Joseph Lenoir. Marcel Guillard was a ceramist at Etling Paris. He had his own studio, where he also collaborated with various artists, such as Alexandre Kelety, Le Jan, André Fau, Gaston Debaize, Genevieve Granger, Armand Godard, Guiraud-Rivièra, Claire Colinet and others. The two female figures stand back to back supporting an ovoid urn between them. They thought to be based on the costume designs from the Ballets Russes, many of which were created by the famous Russian artist Léon Bakst (1866–1924). The Metropolitan Museum, in 2017 showed a group of designs for the Ballets Russes and L’Enfant Gallery hold a set of 8 original Bakst designs from this collection.  Provenance: L’Enfant Gallery purchased this peice in 2005 from Mr Richard Hindin, the founder and proprietor of “Britche’s” men’s clothing store in Georgetown, Washington DC. This was the great traditional store for high end menswear. Mr Richard Hindin purchased it from a private collector in Paris in 1978. This French collector has bought it directly from the artist or foundry where it was caste in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s. There was a second urn of this design caste, held in the collection of Bruce Cusmano, Metropolitan Artefacts, Atlanta, Georgia and was sold in US in April 2023.