PAUL SILVESTRE (Toulouse,1884 - Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 1976). "Galloping horses with rider". Lost

PAUL SILVESTRE (Toulouse,1884 - Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 1976).
"Horses galloping with rider".
Lost wax bronze.
Signed.
Size: 41 x 55 x 25 cm.
In this work Paul Silvestre depicts, with his personal style rich in detail, realistic, dynamic and enormously expressive, three galloping horses, on which a rider is mounted. This theme allows the artist to depict the animals in full effort, captured in a fleeting moment, moving at full speed. This figure reveals Silvestre's talent for capturing human anatomy and gesture, magnificently achieved despite the fact that he was an animalistic sculptor.
Paul Silvestre entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1905 and the workshops of Antonin Mercié and Antonin Carlès. In 1911 he was awarded the Desprez prize, then the first second Grand Prix de Rome in 1912. He exhibited regularly from 1921 at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he won a gold medal in 1930.