Rabbit With Raised Ear In Bronze From Sandoz

Edouard-Marcel Sandoz represented his famous rabbit in different postures, including this so-called version with the raised ear, sculpted in 1917, intended to be presented at the Lyon sample fair in 1918 and published especially in the years 1920-1922.

Édouard Marcel Sandoz, son of Edouard Sandoz, founder of the Sandoz laboratories, was born on March 21, 1881 in Basel, Switzerland. Until he was 20, he divided his time between Lausanne and Château d'Oex, in the heart of the Vaudois Alps. From 1900 to 1903, he attended the School of Decorative Arts in Geneva then he left for Nancy, where he dreamed of working with Emile Gallé, who advised him in 1904 to go to Paris, where he trained at the School the fine Arts. After an early career in the style of cubism, he produced many utilitarian objects but above all became one of the most renowned animal sculptors of his time, working in various materials including marble, ceramics and bronze. His own style links Art Nouveau and Art Deco. He founded the French Animal Society in 1933. In 1947 Édouard-Marcel Sandoz was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris; in 1959, he received the title of "doctor honoris causa in natural sciences" from the University of Lausanne for his research in the animal field. He spent most of his life in Paris, but would often return to Switzerland. He died in Lausanne in 1971.

Sources: From sculpture to porcelain; EM Sandoz Adrien Dubouché National Porcelain Museum;
RMN Gallery Patrick Gutnecht