"Pair Of Artdeco Bookends - Small Bronze Fauns - Paul Silvestre - Susse Frères"
PAUL SILVESTRE (1884-1976)Edition of the foundry Susse Frères in Paris around 1930.
Small fauns as bookends in bronze with brown patina.
Signed on the base Silvestre and marked Susse Frères Éditeurs Paris.
Foundry stamp, marked with a letter intaglio on the uprights.
Height 18 cm Width 23 cm for one,
Height 17 cm Width 22 cm for the other.
Very beautiful nuanced patina, perfect state of conservation.
3.5 kg each.
Paul Silvestre was born in Toulouse, where his father was a carpenter. Admitted in 1905 to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the Antonin Mercié and Antonin Carles workshops. Grand Prix de Rome in 1912, he exhibited regularly from 1921 at the Salon des artistes français, where he won a gold medal in 1930. Named knight of the Legion of Honor in 1906.
Bibliography: P. Cadet, Susse Frères 150 years of Sculpture 1837-1987, model reproduced p. 336
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