Art Deco Silvered Bronze - Stopped Pheasant - Irénée Rochard

Large format for this silvered bronze with 2 patinas representing a stationary pheasant. Original Art Deco black marble base. Note some chips on the marble, visible on photos. Beautiful Irénée ROCHARD signature. 1930s period. Art Deco. For shipping details, please contact us. From 1924 to 1928, Irénée Rochard studied at the Schools of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts, from 1938 he was a member of the National Society of Fine Arts. Between the wars, he was close to other animal sculptors, such as François Pompon and Édouard-Marcel Sandoz. He sculpted hundreds of animals, horses, monkeys, gazelles, panthers, bear cubs, ducks, bison, pelicans, camels, dogs and others in the Art Deco style. He uses ceramics, wood, granite and marble, but especially bronze. He created a few sculptures with Ugo Cipriani, often signed Menneville and Rochard; variations on the theme of a woman with one or more dogs, the female figures being by Menneville (Ugo Cipriani) and the dogs by himself. The city of Paris bought some of his works (1937, 1950, 1954, 1965, 1968), as well as the city of New York in 1938.