Lot 107: PIERRE TRAVERSE

PIERRE TRAVERSE FRENCH 1892-1979 FEMME ET BICHE (WOMAN WITH A DEER) signed: Pierre Traverse and inscribed: Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris bronze, warm brown patina 63 by 94cm., 24 3/4 by 37in.

Pierre Traverse is well-known for his elegant female nudes, with their strong sense of design and carefully delineated silhouettes. He was a pupil of the sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Salon d'Automne. He was made a member of the Légion d'honneur in 1938. Traverse also produced a variant of the present model, with two greyhounds.

RELATED LITERATURE
E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres sculpteurs dessinateurs et graveurs, Paris, 1999, vol. 13, p. 778