Faguays Famous Art Nouveau Signed Bronze Hunter Diana

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WE ARE HONORED AND DELIGHTED TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT FOR OUR CLIENTS CONSIDERATION, A VERY FINELY DETAILED BRONZE , CREATED BY THE MASTER SCULPTOR, PIERRE LE FAGUAYS. THIS BRONZE IS CALLED DIANA THE HUNTRESS AND ONE MUST LOOK CLOSELY AT THE PHOTOS TO SEE THE INTRICATE BOW SHE HOLDS WHILE STANDING ON ONE LEG ON AN ITALIAN MARBLE BASE, POSED AS ONLY AN ACCOMP,ISHED MARKS(WOMAN)MAN COULD BE, WELL BALANCED AND WITH GRACE, THIS BRONZE IS SIMPLY ASTONISHING. WITH FINE PATINA, SHE IS A WONDERFUL DEPICTION OF THIS ARTISTS LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE FEMALE FORM, AND HAS BECOME HIGHLY COLLECTABLE AS A GREAT ART DECO SCULPTOR. THE PIECE IS SIGNED IN BRONZE AND A PICTURE OF HIS SIGNATURE IS SHOWN. THE ARTIST . Pierre le Faguays was born in 1892 in Nantes France and died in 1925. He was a member of the Salon, and was awarded the Medal of Honor 1925. He worked in wood, stone, ivory as well as bronze. His study of a muscular man in a bronze called The Wheel is a very famous bronze piece. He was greatly influenced by dancing statues and form of Tanaga. As a student of Vibert, his pieces depicted BOLD, STRONG, STYLISH, SELF ASSURED WOMAN, MUSCULAR AMAZONS, WARRIOR TYPES AS WELL AS SOPHISTICATED AND SLIGHT DANCERS. His greatness comes from his ability to capture dancers in motion, stances of athletes, male as well as female all which punctuate his adeptness in capturing the human form still or in motion. He has presented subjects from various walks of life-biblical to dancers to athletes to hunters. Pierre lived until 1935 and became recognized as not only a great sculptor, but also leading member of the committee for 1925 Paris Exhibition des Arts Decoratifs. We have seen many worldwide in museums, private collections, corporate collections, and they always signify a magnificence hard to verbalize. As for his figures the faces tend to be quit striking, each with a most unique expression- yes, his subjects do actually speak to us, which is afterall, the intent and purpose of great art, and the legacy of a great artist. PIERRE LE FAGUAYS was a prolific and versatile avant-garde French sculptor whose works greatly influenced the styles of the 1920's and early 1930's, a force in the art world to be loved, admired and reckoned with. Prices for his bronzes are always under hammer, (very rarely originals-always recasts and afters, each with their own charm-running around $5000-$35000. Several on Ebay at the moment, many many times our starting price with no reserve.) Please note this is all Bronze and as we attempt to do as a mission objective, both on Ebay and at our store, is to bring incredible items, both afters or recasts and originals, to our clients without reserves-and our family has been doing so for many generations. THIS OFFERING Diana was the hunting goddess, associated with wild animals and woodlands. She also later became a moon goddess, supplanting Luna, and was an emblem of chastity. Oak groves were especially sacred to her. She was praised in poetry for her strength, athletic grace, distinct beauty and hunting skill. In practice she made up a trinity with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife; and Virbius, the woodland god. In her etymology, "Diana" is simply :"the Goddess", with a Greek parallel in the name âe" though not the cult practice âe" of Dione at Dodona. She was goddess of fertility and quick to anger.Diana was worshipped at a festival on August 13 when King Servius Tullius, himself born a slave, dedicated her shrine on the Aventine Hill in the mid-sixth century BCE. Being placed on the Aventine, and thus outside the pomerium , meant that Diana's cult essentially remained a 'foreign' one, like that of Bacchus; she was never officially 'transferred' to Rome as Junowas after the sack of Veii. It seems that her cult originated in Aricia w her priest, the Rex Nemorensis remained. T the simple open-air fane was held in common by the Latin tribes, which Rome aspired to weld into a league and direct. Dian... read more

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