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Terracotta sculpture by André Vincent Becquerel (1893-1981), representing two Weimaraners with a bowl. Sculpture signed "Becquerel" on the terrace. André Vincent Becquerel executed many decorative sculptures, with a preference for animals. In 1914, he exhibited for the first time at the Salon of the Society of French Artists. Then from 1922 he exhibited regularly in the major Parisian salons. André Vincent Becquerel is an important French animal sculptor of the XXth century referenced in the Illustrated dictionary of animal sculptors and founders from Antiquity to the present day, by Jean-Charles Hachet, p.676.
Good condition (a shock on the paw of one of the two dogs).
Around 1940.
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