Bronze 1925, 94 cm, Ary BITTER, founder: SUSSE, Deer drinking

Bronze 1925, Ary BITTER, founder: SUSSE, Deer drinking

Period: circa 1925, Art Deco, Beautiful lost wax bronze, in very good condition on a white marble base, also in perfect condition
Signed: Ary Bitter, bears the inscriptions: Fondeur SUSSE Frères Paris and Bronze à la cire perdue,
Listed and listed artist, Artprice rating up to €10,500 for a similar bronze,

On 02/10/2003 - Sotheby's - Paris, France:
Two deer at the fountain (identical to our bronze): Lot No. 7, Sculpture-Volume- Bronze, brown patina. Lost wax 24 x 92 cm
Hammer price: €8,500 - Price with fees: €10,200
Subject: Deer drinking from the fountain held by a faun. This work served as a model for the construction of a monumental basin.
Dimensions: length: 94 cm, height: 26 cm, depth: 17 cm. - 16 Kg.

Biography:
Ary Jean Léon Bitter 1883/1973

Bitter, born in Marseille on May 29, 1883 and died on June 14, 1973 in Paris, is a French sculptor.

In 1895, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille directed by Antoine Dominique MAGAUD then in 1896 Alphonse MOUTTE. The sculpture classes are taught by Emile ALDEBERT.

Member of the Society of French Artists, student of Jules Coutan, Ary Bitter won a silver medal at the Salon des artistes français in 1921 and then the gold medal in 1924 before being placed outside the competition.

He was commissioned to create monumental sculptures such as
1914: the monumental sculpture of the food pavilion at the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern.

In 1921, he created the war memorial in Sanary-sur-Mer (stone and bronze).

As well as the war memorials in the Saint-Jérôme (bronze) and Saint-Louis (stone) cemeteries in Marseille.

In 1925, Ary Bitter exhibited alongside Paul Sylvestre, Maximilien Fiot, Roger Godchaux and Georges Guyot at the Susse gallery on Boulevard de la Madeleine. The same year, he exhibited at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, then he had twenty-nine of his works published by Susse during the interwar period and sixteen others by Les Neveux de J. Lehmann. His recognition came when he was declared hors-competition at the 1932 Salon.

In 1937, Bitter participated in the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Paris, where he exhibited glassware and chamotte stoneware, with Bouraine at the Palais de la Céramique, and Héraklès, a bronze, at the Palais du Métal, with Guyot, Guino and Fiot.

In 1939, he received a commission from the FNAC for three small bronze gargoyles for the water outlets of the base of a monumental fountain in Pithiviers.

Two of his sculptures (The Sun and the Sea and The World and Energy, also known as the Two Lions) adorn the monumental staircase of the Marseille-Saint-Charles train station.

According to Édouard-Joseph, the Luxembourg Museum owned a stone statue of Diana by him. The work seems to be lost today, but the Musée de la Piscine in Roubaix has a Diana the Huntress that could correspond to this statue.

Ary Bitter was named a knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor by decree of July 13, 1932.

Museums:

His works are present in the Museums:

Paris: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Reclining Woman, terracotta (1936).

Marseille: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bacchus enfant, stone (1937). Madame Nathan, bronze.

Vernon: A.G. Poulain Municipal Museum, large cart, plaster.

Mont de Marsan: Despiau-Wlérick Museum, elephant and baby elephant, bronze.

Nimes: Bullfighting Traditions Museum, 10 drawings

Roubaix: Museum of Art and Industry, Diana the Huntress, plaster (1925). Table centerpiece, enameled terracotta (1948), Drawings.

Nanterre: National Contemporary Art Fund, gargoyles, bronze (1940).

Arles: Museon Arlaten, 42 drawings illustrating Provence.

Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Leda and the Swan (silver plate).

Sold with Invoice and Certificate.

Bronze visible at our gallery in L’Isle sur la Sorgue (France), on weekends.
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And on estimate for abroad

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