Tall Art Deco Bronze Sculpture by Louis Marcel Botinelly

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About the Item

Authentic Art deco bronze sculpture Louis Marcel BOTINELLY (1883 - 1962) "The Childhood of Bacchus" ("L'enfance de bacchus"). Important and tall bronze sculpture with green patina representing a young naked woman lying and Bacchus as a child. Signed "Louis Botinelly" and foundry stamp "cire perdu Le blanc Barbedienne Paris" On a silver leaf wood base (later period). Louis Botinelly, born in Digne on January 2, 1883, is the son of a marble worker and stonemason, originally from the canton of Ticino (Switzerland) and established in this city at the time of Louis' birth. The family then moved to Marseille, rue Saint-Pierre, in a workshop which Botinelly's father had inherited on the death of his brother. Thanks to a scholarship from the city of Marseille, Louis Botinelly was able to stay in Italy in 1902 where he worked in the studio of Jules Coutan. In 1905, he was received first at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. He moved to the capital in 1906, where he produced a large number of his works. He married a young lady Jeanne Gaillard, in Riez, in 1908. In 1911, he won a bronze medal for his bear trainer. He was mobilized in 1914 in the 7th engineer regiment in Avignon. After the war, he divorced on May 27, 1921 to remarry in Marseille on December 21, 1921 with Madeleine Nicolet, whom he met in Avignon. He moved to 14 rue Buffon where he had his studio which he refurbished in 1933 when his daughter was born. Like many French sculptors of the time, he received orders for several monuments to the dead in memory of the combatants, including that of the city of Avignon, for which he received the sum of 30,100 francs. In 1943, the German occupation army, having decided to recover the bronze from the street furniture, had several statues removed, including those of Pierre-Antoine Berryer, Lamartine, Victor Gelu, the Blind and the Paralytic and the Teddy Bear Trainer. This last statue was saved thanks to the intervention of Louis Botinelly and reassembled on its base on February 25, 1945. Louis Botinelly died on March 26, 1962 in his apartment on rue Buffon; he rests in the Plan-de-Cuques cemetery. A street in Marseille bears his name. Botinelly's style is a mixture of figurative tradition and modernity. If he does not innovate, he knows how to evolve with the spirit of the times. The Asian Colonies and African Colonies, designed for the competition launched by the city of Marseilles in 1911, but whose construction was postponed until 1925 due to the 1914-1918 war, still testify to the Beaux-Arts style as Le Docker (1936), on the facade of the Marseille labor exchange, is influenced by art nouveau. Botinelly will continue to evolve, abandoning point size for direct size and working with modern materials such as concrete.

Creator:
Louis Botinelly (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 14.2 in (36.07 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 12 in (30.48 cm)
Style:
Art Deco (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Bronze,Silver Leaf
Place of Origin:
Europe
Period:
1930-1939
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1930
Condition:
Seller Location:
CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE, FR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU8593233937022