Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875)
On offer this RARE and VALUABLE Find! A Bronze high relief Plaque by Master French Artist Antoine-Louis Barye. It measures 14.5x10cm and features a Retriever amongst reeds and a flying bird escaping into the background. In perfect condition and signed by the artist. Another marking on the back but difficult to decipher. Barye is regarded as the greatest artist of animal life of the French School and his bronze sculptures sell for between R20 000 to R700 000 when they become available on the open market as most of his works are held in the Louvre in Paris.
Some recorded sales:
France - 12/10/2010 - Bronze Statue (45cm tall) - R648 000,
Sothebys:
23/11/2010 - Bronze Statue (35cm tall) - R265 000,
23/11/2010 - Bronze Horse Statue (31cm tall)- R391 000,
11/4/2010 - Bronze Statue (45cm tall) - R523 000
High relief bronze plaques by Barye, similar to this one, show recorded sales of between R2000 - R3000.
From the Internet: Barye, a French sculptor, was born in Paris on the 24th of September 1796. Like many of the sculptors of the Renaissance he began life as a goldsmith. After studying under Bosio, the sculptor, and Gros, the painter, he was in 1818 admitted to the École des Beaux Arts. But it was not till 1823, when he was working for Fauconnier, the goldsmith, that he discovered his real bent from watching the wild beasts in the Jardin des Plantes, making vigorous studies of them in pencil drawings worthy of Delacroix and then modelling them in sculpture on a large or small scale. Barye, though engaged in a perpetual struggle with want, exhibited year after year these studies of animals, admirable groups which reveal him as inspired by a spirit of true romance and a feeling for the beauty of the antique. as in Theseus and the Minotaur (1847), Lapitha and Centaur (1848), and numerous minor works now very highly valued. Barye was no less successful in sculpture on a small scale, and excelled in representing animals in their most familiar attitudes.
He was made professor at the museum in 1854, and was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts in 1868. He died on the 25th of June 1875. The mass of admirable work left to us by Barye entitles him to be regarded as the greatest artist of animal life of the French school, and as the creator of a new class of art which has attracted such men as Fremiet, Peter, Cain, and Gardet, who are regarded with justice as his worthiest followers.
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Please see the other Barye Bronze Plaque I currently have listed on the R1 N/R Auction!
Shipping: R40
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