Timeless Nature: Property from a Private New York Collection
Antoine-Louis Barye
Eléphant du Sénégal (Elephant of Senegal)
Lot Closed
October 16, 04:56 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
signed BARYE on one side and inscribed BARBEDIENNE
bronze, on a green marble base
height: 6 ⅛ in.; 15.6 cm.
Conceived in 1973, Éléphant du Sénégal is the most dynamic, and, arguably, most popular of Antoine-Louis Barye’s four elephant studies. After the artist's death in 1875, when the F. Barbédienne foundry gained the rights to Barye's models, they began to produce more editions of his works, and the current model become widely desired.
Known as the 'Michelangelo of the Menagerie,' Barye's hyper-realistic bronzes often focused on the animal kingdom, speaking to the 19th century fascination with both the exotic and the then burgeoning science of zoology.
RELATED LITERATURE
M. Poletti and A. Richarme, Barye: Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Paris, 2000, p. 251, no. A 119.
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