Art Deco Bronze Statuette Depicting a Young Gymnast

Iconic and particular statuette in cast bronze with wooden base, depicts a young gymnast who performs an exercise with harmony and plasticity lightly holding a long stick similar to a spear, is a young modern gymnast, with clothing, hairstyle and face to fashion futurist, very well represented the body full of a slender grace elegant and composed, the shaped base is made of wood while the underlying part is covered with red fabric. The artist was inspired by the principles of Art Deco which exalted the elongated, agile and athletic forms of both male and female bodies. It was made between 1925 and 1930 with a beautiful bronze statuary casting in a small artisan workshop in Val D'Osne (Haute Marne, France), an area famous for its cast iron, bronze and copper foundries. On the statuette is imprinted the signature of the artist, but unfortunately this is barely legible. Art Deco is a style and a model of aesthetic taste that spread in Europe and the United States between the "roaring twenties" and the thirties of the twentieth century. The name Déco comes from the words "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes" (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925, which initiated this new phenomenon that involved decorative arts, visual arts, architecture and fashion. Because of its origins, Art Deco is also called "Style 1925". Art Deco is essentially characterized by classical forms and symmetrical, clean geometry and plasticity in the figures. Measures length cm.17, depth cm.7, height cm.13.