Wednesday 22 March 2023
Sevres, after a design by Francois Pompon Art Deco model of a striding polar bear, circa 1926
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Sevres, after a design by Francois Pompon
Art Deco model of a striding polar bear, circa 1926
Glazed ceramic
Underside with impressed stamp 'S / SEVRES / MADE IN / FRANCE' and inscribed 'Rb'
21cm high
Lot Footnotes
A similar life-size sculpture in marble is held at The Met Museum, New York with the following note:
Francois Pompon, circa 1923:
Classically trained at the École des beaux-arts and the École nationale des arts décoratifs in Paris, the sculptor Pompon was a frequent exhibitor at official French salons, and a studio assistant to Auguste Rodin from 1890 to 1897. At the age of 67, he first showed a life-sized plaster sculpture of a striding polar bear at the 1922 Salon d’automne, the popularity of which led him to produce related models in a variety of sizes, from table-top to full-scale, and in a range of media including plaster, porcelain, marble, and bronze.
As a genre, animalier sculpture—depictions of animals—reached its height in mid-nineteenth century France. The public taste for it, however, lasted well into the twentieth, even if principally as a form of decoration. Indeed, Polar Bear was a favorite model of Pompon’s friend, the renowned decorator Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, who featured it prominently in many of his interiors—most notably his widely-visited room settings at the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, the vast and influential state-sponsored design fair in Paris that today lends its name to the Art Deco style.
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