MAX Le VERRIER, Chryselephantine 45 cm, Art Deco, Pierrot

MAX Le VERRIER, Chryselephantine, Art Deco, Pierrot

Period: 1920 / 30 Art Deco, Ivory and Bronze Chryselephantine in lost wax, in excellent condition.

Signed: M. Le Verrier, XXth century Art Deco artist, referenced and highly prized,
Subject: "Pierrot
Dimensions: height: 45 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 12 cm

Biography:
Max Le VERRIER 1891 / 1919
Max Le Verrier was born on January 29, 1891 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Le Verrier died in Paris on June 6, 1973.

Louis Octave Maxime Le Verrier, better known as Max Le Verrier, also under the pseudonym Artus (1891-1973) was a French sculptor. He was known as a pioneer of the Parisian Art Deco movement, creating decorative art objects often in bronze, as well as historical sculptures.

Max Le Verrier was born on January 29, 1891 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to a French father who was a goldsmith and jeweler, and a Belgian mother]. His parents separated when he was a child, and he spent a lot of time in boarding schools. He served as a pilot in the French army during the First World War.

Le Verrier attended the Geneva University of Art and Design (formerly the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Genève), studying with Marcel Bouraine and Pierre Le Faguays] He returned to Paris in 1919.
He opened his studio in 1919 in Paris.

In 1925, he exhibited his work at the Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris, where he won a gold medal. His first popular sculpture was a pelican in 1925. In 1921, Le Verrier married Jeanne Hubrecht, and they had two children. In the early 1920s, he inherited a small metal foundry, and in 1926 began making decorative objects in his own workshop.

During the Second World War, Le Verrier's home was used as a burial ground for the Resistance. He was arrested in 1944 for his links with the anti-Nazi resistance. He was able to reopen his workshop after the war.

His workshop is located at 30 rue Deparcieux, and he has a small store at 100 rue du Théâtre in Paris. Le Verrier's workshop created bronze lamps, ashtrays, bookends, desk sets and hood ornaments; often depicting nude women or animals in an Art Deco style. He used a few different patina styles, notably the notable "green" style, and often mounted them on Italian marble bases. In addition to bronze, he also worked in ivory, zinc, terracotta and ceramics. He also cast works for other sculptors, including Pierre Le Faguays, Marcel Bouraine, André Vincent Becquerel, and Jules Edmont Masson.
Le Verrier died in Paris on June 6, 1973.

His work can be found in public museum collections, notably the Musée d'Orsay. Le Verrier's great-grandson, Damien Blanchet, continued to produce his sculptures after his death, under the name Maison Max Le Verrier.

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Sculpture on view at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), weekends.
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