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Signed Colinet Art Deco Bronze Sculpture of a Female Dancer
Antique Bronze sculpture of a female dancer. Signed to the base of bronze figure and raised on black marble base. No foundry mark is present.
Colinet was born in brussels, belgium in 1880. Little is known about her life other than the artwork she produced during a successful career that spanned more than forty years. As a woman, she was in the minority in her chosen field of sculpture during the era in which she worked and lived. At an undetermined date – probably around 1910 – she emigrated to paris, france, where she studied sculpture under the watchful eye of Jef Lambeaux and exhibited for the first time at the salon des artistes francais in 1913. From 1937 to 1940, she exhibited at the salon des independents in paris and joined the union of women painters and sculptors.
Her work is primarily done in the art deco style and her models included odalisques, exotic dancers, jugglers and other artists of cabaret. A number of her female dancer pieces were influenced by a revival of the orientalism movement which had been popular in europe from about 1860 to 1880.
17 3/4" high at highest point x 8" wide. Marble base with a diameter of 5 1/2" at widest point.
Condition: Very good. Nice patina.
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