We’ve been tempted several times to do an exhibition on children’s portraits, but we were always afraid it would be too « pretty ». Our last week’s acquisition made us think about it again. This bronze portrait relief of a boy is by Agathon Leonard (1841-1923), the Belgian Art Nouveau sculptor mostly known for...
Things tend to come upon us in series… We haven’t been buying much the last two weeks, but by coincidence we came across -in different locations- two works by the Franco-Swiss Romantic sculptor : James Pradier (1790 – 1852). One is a bronze of La Pêche that we had seen exposed in the Musees d’Art...
Paul Manship (1885-1966), one of America’s most famous 20th century sculptors, seems to be somewhat unknown in Europe although many people must know his emblematic sculpture of Prometheus above the fountain in front of Rockefeller Center in New York City. As far as we know, in France only Beaubourg has one example of his work…...