26 JANUARY 2 FEBRUARY 2025

BRUSSELS EXPO | HEYSEL

ARTWORKS

Additional artworks will be shown on 27/01/2021 !

News

Univers du Bronze – Press Release

We have selected several masterpieces that offer an overview of sculpture history issue in the 19th and 20th centuries, with iconic models. Modernity will be promoted thanks to two incredible animals by F. X. Lalanne, a Carpe d’or and above all a very rare marble Chat from the original limited edition. The unmissable animalier, François Pompon, will be represented with a Grue couronnée au repos, a true line master jewel. Smooth forms will be used for the new models of sealife animals by Umberto, the elegance of a dancing squid, Knossos and the running-like Méduse. 19th century animaliers will also be there with the exceptional painting by Barye, the Jaguar marchant. A masterpiece by its history and aesthetic. The canvas was included in the after-death sale of Barye, purchased there by Hector Brame, then Ferdinand Barbedienne, before Durand Ruel, who sold it only three days after to Mr and Mrs Potter-Palmer, one of the most powerful collector couple of the time, who contribute to the foundation of the Impressionnist department of the Art Institute of Chicago. Several impressive labels behind the frame of the painting: Art Institute of Chicago; Saginaw Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art. Human figures will be embodied by a polychrom stoneware, probably unique by Sarah Bernhardt depicting a Young Mars, a plaster bust of Victor Hugo by David d’Angers or a very rare lifetime cast of the reduction of the Ugolin by Carpeaux…


BRAFA 2024 - Univers du Bronze - Highlights

CONTACT

Paris

Michel Poletti & Alain Richarme

27-29 Rue de Penthièvre

FR-75008 Paris

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ABOUT

Founded in 1986, the Univers du Bronze Gallery mainly presents works by major sculptors from the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibited artists include Barye, Bugatti, Carpeaux, Degas, Giacometti, Laurens, Lipchitz, Maillol, Pompon, Rodin… The works of these artists are regularly presented at international fairs such as BRAFA, Masterpiece London, Fine Arts Paris and Antica Namur. Michel Poletti and Alain Richarme have also published several ‘catalogues raisonnés’ about Barye, Carpeaux…

Founded : 1986

Specialisations

19th, 20th and contemporary sculptures

Associations

C.P.G.A. Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art, S.N.A. Syndicat National des Antiquaires Négociants en Objets d'Art Tableaux anciens et modernes de France, C.N.E. Compagnie Nationale des Experts, ROCAD.be (Royal Chamber of Art dealers), Alain Richarme, Expert at the Court of Appeal of Paris, Alain Richarme, Expert at the C.N.E.

Fairs

The Armory Show - New York, EX.Paris, La Biennale Paris, Masterpiece London, Fine Arts Paris, BRAFA - Brussels, The Treasure House Fair London, TEFAF Maastricht, TEFAF Basel