Pelican By Charles Artus In Cast Art Art Deco Bronze Patina Max Le Verrier

Paperweight in cast art (similar as tin) by Charles Artus around 1925 with dark green patina, on a square base in light stone representing a pelican treated in the art deco manner.
Model edited by Max Le Verrier.
Signed Artus* around the base Note slight small tears on the top of the beak and a small one on the left wing .
Published in the Max Le Verrier catalog of 1925 N° 252 Page 3 for the same model reproduced
"Mascottes Passion" by M Legrand N ° 549 for the same model reproduced.
delivery possible by registered colissimo with insurance and delivered against signature for:
France 25€
Europe 45€
Reste du monde 80€
*Charles Artus was born in Étretat on July 16, 1897.
Pupil of Édouard Navellier, then assistant to François Pompon in the 1920s, member of the Salon d'Automne where he exhibited a lithographic stone entitled Écureuil and a bronze Guinea fowl.
Lifelong member of the Society of French Artists where he exhibited from 1920 to 1927.
In 1923 he obtained an honorable mention and then, in 1926, a bronze medal. He exhibited until 1940 at the Salon des Indépendants, the National Society of Fine Arts and the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs. He is a member of the "Group of XII" group of animal sculptors gathered around the figure of Pompom with Pierre-Jean Jouve, Hilbert, Jane Poupelet, Lemar, Guyot, Bigot. Artus' studio at 212 rue de Vaugirard became famous, and Artus worked with the Edgar Brandt, Charpentier and Bernheim Jeune galleries.
He left Paris in 1940 to settle permanently in Etretat in a house-workshop designed by the architect Mauge in the Bligny mansion. Charles Artus died in Le Havre on October 21, 1978.
His works are kept, among others, at the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris, the Louvre Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen, the Museums of Vernon, Gien, Boulogne, Poitiers, Mont-de-Marsan, Philadelphia, Metropolitan Museum in New York, in museums in Tokyo, Toronto, Ottawa or, among others, Luxembourg...