Panther licking - André-Vincent BECQUEREL (1893-1981)

A bronze sculpture with nuanced green patina
Signed on the base " Becquerel "
Old edition cast
Presented on a wooden base

France
circa 1930

height of the bronze 32,5 cm
height with base 39 cm
length of the bronze 61 cm
length of base 65,5 cm
depth 19 cm

Biography :
André Vincent Becquerel (1893-1981) was a French sculptor. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under the direction of Hector Lemaire and Prosper Lecourtier.

Becquerel exhibited at the Salon of the Society of French Artists from 1914 to 1922. He executed many decorative sculptures, including animal subjects, with a preference for wild animals. On the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1937 in Paris, he exhibited a monumental sculpture patinated plaster for the International Pavilion.