Marcel Bouraine Pair of Art Deco Bronze Bookends H: 7" W: 6" D: 4" France 1930s

Shipping in USA $ 95. Excellent Quality French Bookends. Marcel Bouraine (1886–1948) was a French sculptor. He is known for his work in the Art Deco-era, specifically small statuettes, lamps, bookends, and radiator figures.Marcel Bouraine was born in 1886 in Pontoise, Île-de-France, France.He studied sculpture under the direction of Joseph-Alexandre Falguiere. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, the Salon D Automne, and the Salon des Tuilleries (1922).During World War I, Bouraine was a prisoner of war and was taken to Switzerland. He later studied at École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Geneve.Bouraine's work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1928, he designed statuettes in pate de verre for glass manufacturer Gabriel Argy-Rousseau. He exhibited two large sculptures at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne of 1937 in Paris.
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