Art Nouveau French Bronze Young Dancer with Marble Base

Pretty and elegant statuette in bronze melting with marble base; depicts a young ballerina running with harmony and plasticity a difficult number of dance supporting a bouquet of flowers with lightness; It is a young dancer with clothing, hairstyle and fashionable face Art nouveau, very well represented the slender body full of an elegant and composed grace; The excellent fusion of statuary bronze (copper, pond united to hardening materials), was then refined by hand in all details; Two types of marble were used for the base: Black Marquinia, high quality stone fine stone material from deep black, extracted from the Markina region, Basque Country in northern Spain, is one of the most famous natural stones and appreciated in the world; Marquinia is widely used for precious ornamental works; For the part below it was used the Fior di Pesco Apuano extract from the mountains that overlook Massa-Carrara (Italy), is one of the most precious marbles in the world, from the unmistakable shades ranging from pink, gray and white, in the past it was used First by the Romans to make their rooms and palaces shine, then from the family of doctors to embellish the rich Florence of the Renaissance. The statuette was built in Art nouveau style between 1920 and 1922 with a beautiful fusion of statuary bronze in a small artisan laboratory in Val d'Osne (Alta Marne, France), a famous area for its cast iron foundries, bronze and copper. The Art Nouveau ("New Art") is an artistic-philosophical movement that is born in France between the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century and spread throughout Europe with different names in the different countries: modernism in Spain, In Italy the Liberty, Austria the Sezessionstil, Germany Jugendstil. From a visual point of view, the works of art nouveau (paintings, statues, architecture) are characterized by an accentuated decorative elegance and from sweet and sinuous lines that meet and intertwine harmoniously; The Art Nouveau was born as a reaction to the industrial production of series objects made possible by the eight hundred end automation processes. To escape the massification of the product, artists of the art nouveau innovated him, embellished him with a personal touch to make it unique. The city of election par excellence of this artistic movement was therefore Paris. The statuette is in good condition, but marble bases have scrapers. Measurements length cm.39, width cm.12, height cm, 21. For all our expeditions we use special packaging materials (wooden cases, polystyrene, etc.) for maximum protection and safety of objects.