Description

Art Nouveau Bronze Dancing Lady 2 – Cold-Painted Bronze

Italian Stile Liberty (Art Nouveau) bronze not signed – artist unknown

Depicting a slender and rather frail dancing lady with arms widespread

Beautiful silver & blue cold cast painting

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts, known in different languages by different names: Jugendstil in German, Stile Liberty in Italian, Modernisme català in Catalan, etc. In English, it is also known as the Modern Style. The style was most popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period that ended with the start of World War I in 1914. It was a reaction against the academic art, eclecticism, and historicism of 19th-century architecture and decoration.

One major objective of Art Nouveau was to break down the traditional distinction between fine arts (especially painting and sculpture) and applied arts. It was most widely used in interior design, graphic arts, furniture, glass art, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, and metal work. The first Art Nouveau houses and interior decoration appeared in Brussels in the 1890s, in the architecture and interior design of houses designed by Paul Hankar, Henry van de Velde, and especially Victor Horta, whose Hôtel Tassel was completed in 1893. It moved quickly to Paris, where it was adapted by Hector Guimard, who saw Horta’s work in Brussels and applied the style to the entrances of the new Paris Métro. It reached its peak at the 1900 Paris International Exposition, which introduced the Art Nouveau work of artists such as Louis Tiffany. It appeared in graphic arts in the posters of Alphonse Mucha, and the glassware of René Lalique and Émile Gallé.

By 1914, and with the beginning of the First World War, Art Nouveau was largely exhausted. In the 1920s, it was replaced as the dominant architectural and decorative art style by Art Deco and then Modernism.

The statue on sale is a detailed piece showing the curves of the body, the ornated dress, and headgear

Cold-painted metal is metal that features enamel paint applied after a craftsman casts the object. Most cold-painted objects are bronze.

The crafting technique dates from the Art Nouveau period but really emerged during the Art Deco period

✓ Height: 53 cm

✓ Width: 33 cm

✓ Depth: 21 cm

✓ Marble base: 27 cm diameter

✓ Weight: 6,400 KG !

Mint condition