"Two Playing Panthers - Signed Rochard"
Two Panthers playing ball by Irénée Rochard (1906 - 1984)Group of Panthers in bronze on a black marble base with onyx signed "ROCHARD"
France - circa 1930
Age-related patina with some chips at the base
52 cm x 12 cm x 22 cm
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Irénée Félix René Rochard, born January 16, 1906 in Villefranche-sur-Saône and died March 29, 1984 (aged 78) in Paris, in the 15th arrondissement1, was a French animal sculptor.
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.
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.
(fr.wikipedia.org)
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