JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 11 October 2022 - 10:00 AM start
Pétrus Verdié (Brazil/France early 20thC)
Realised: $1,300 plus premium
Lot Details
Reaching bending figure, cire perdue bronze, signed and dated 1905, foundry mark of Claude Valsuani. H.245mm, excluding mahogany plinth. The Valsuani foundry was associated with Renoir, Daumier, Picasso, Troubetskoy, Matisse, et al. Verdié was at various times in the early 20th century on the committee of, and an exhibitor at the Exposições Gerais de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro. A retrospective of his work was held at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in 1954. https://tinyurl.com/Verdie-research
