PH DEVRIEZ MODERNE DANCER

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A nice silvered bronze sculpture by Philippe Devriez circa 1930.

The figure depicts a highly stylized nude dancer, with legs crossed and arms raised.
Silvered bronze on an important black marble plinth.
Signed Devriez on the base.

H : 17.3″
L : 12.9″
W : 5.3″

A rare and very stylish bronze sculpture with a cubist influence.
This modernist sculpture is very unusual in his work.

Very good condition

SKU: 12 08 AE Category:

Description

Philippe Devriez, born in Poland. he moved to Paris ib the nineteen-twenties.
He executed a few bronze and ivories.
He exhibited at the 1926 Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.
He executed, small bronzes, mostly figures of women fashioned with a degree of wry humour through slight exaggeration of stance or expression.

Litt; ” Bronzes Sculptors and Founders 1800-1930″, by H Berman, Volume 3 N° 1936 Page 534, for the same model.