Anna Pavlova, Russian Dancer in Bronze, Art Deco Period, Signed Paul De Boulongne (1863-1938)

Paul de BOULONGNE Dancer Anna Pavlova.

Superb bronze subject with nuanced brown patina from the art deco period Signed on the terrace. PAVLOVA - from BOULONGNE Anna PAVLOVA, a Russian ballerina of exceptional talent and charisma, was, during her lifetime, a myth of classical dance all over the world.

Born into a modest family in 1881 in Saint Petersburg, she died in 1931 in The Hague of pleurisy. After seeing a performance of Sleeping Beauty in 1890, Anna Pavlova felt drawn to dance and trained at the Imperial Dance School in St. Petersburg, she entered the ballet of the Mariinsky Theater becoming "prima ballerina". Hired in 1908 by Serge Diaghiliev, she participated in 1909 in Paris in the premiere of the famous Ballets Russes.

She moved to London where she founded her own company, dancing in some 4000 cities on 4 continents. Long and slender, frail and delicate in appearance, she embodies for posterity the image of the romantic dancer: "Death of the swan", "Les Sylphides", "Giselle" - are her famous duets with Nijinsky. Expressive tragedian with unparalleled gifts of transformation, she shuns virtuosity. She acquires fame through her ethereal, immaterial presence in the purest of classical styles.

Among the many artists to represent it, such as art photographers - a sculptor emerges: Boulongne.

Paul de BOULONGNE, born in Marseille in 1863, artist, sculptor, succumbed to the bewitchment of the dancer and reproduces her most sensitive expressions in statuettes. He worked from a sketch modeled with plaster, produced a wax model, and generally distributed it by means of bronze proofs. Few of his works in porcelain biscuit. The triumph of the Star was to dance alone on stage. This is how La Pavlova entered the legend, in which Boulongne participated through his works. He was a great success, and the dissemination of his works was extended by the postcard, reproduced in collotype at Moreau frères 159 boulevard Saint Germain in Paris. Member of the National Fine Arts in 1912, he died in 1938, 7 years after his favorite model, his muse, the Pavlova.