A stunning rare large art deco bronze figure by Marcel-Andre Bouraine, "Jongleuse", circa 1924,
edited by Arthur Goldscheider - Paris
The gilded bronze figure mounted on black marble and illuminated onyx sphere-
55cm high
Signed Bouraine and made in France in the marble and stamped 70 in the bronze with some wear to the finish and slight chips to the black marble.
(See page 230 of Goldscheider - History of the company and catalogue of the works for an original trade advert featuring this art deco sculpture).

(French 1886-1948) Marcel-Andre Bouraine
Born in Pontoise (Seine-et Oise), he studied under Jean-Alexndre-Joseph Falguiere (1881 - 1900), who had reintroduced and emphasized realism in nineteenth-century sculpture. Bouraine was captured in Germany during the First World War, and interned in Switzerland. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries. The following year he began to exhibit at the Salon d'Autommne. He executed small-scale bronze sculptures for several French firms, including Susse Freres, Max Le Verrier and Austria's Arthur Goldscheider, often exhibiting with the latter's La Stele and L'Evolution groups.
In 1928 Gabriell Argy-rousseau (1885- 1953) commissioned a number of figurines from Bouraine, mostly female nudes, but also a fountain and an illuminated group, all of which were executed in colored, translucent pate de verre. He executed two major commissions for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition.

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