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Art deco bookend by Hippolyte François MOREAU , tucan representative,
France 1925 .
Signed
Biography;
François, known as Hippolyte, was the second son of sculptor Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Joseph Moreau, and trained in his father's studio.
With his two brothers Mathurin and Auguste, he moved to Paris to study under François Jouffroy at the École des Beaux-Arts.
From 1863 to 1914, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, where he sent decorative subjects mostly inspired by the 18th century. He won a medal at the 1878 Universal Exhibition and another at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.
He mainly produced medium-sized works and decorative or everyday objects: vases, statuettes, paper-cutters, bronze, regula or pewter cubby-holes.
He designed the statue of Alexis Claude Clairaut (1880) on one of the facades of Paris City Hall, rue de Lobau.
Most of his works are kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.
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