Art Deco Bronze Figure - Penthesilea - Marcel-André Bouraine

The adjoining bronze figure bears the title "Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons" and was designed by the French Art Deco artist Marcel Bouraine. Depicted is a warrior, aiming with bow and imagined arrow on an object in the distance Penthesilea was an Amazonian queen in Greek mythology, the daughter of Ares and Otrera and the sister of Hippolyta, Antiope and Melanippe. Penthesilea had killed Hippolyta with a spear when they were hunting deer; this accident caused Penthesilea so much grief that she wished only to die, but, as a warrior and an Amazon, she had to do so honorably and in battle. The sculpture on the left bears the signature of the artist.

As all of the bronze products in our shop, this exhibit is hand-cast in our own foundry and subject to our strict quality inspections throughout the entire process of production. All of our sculptures are exclusively compounded with the help of lost-wax casting.

Marcel-André Bouraine was born in 1886 in Pontoise, France. The city is located in the north-western suburbs of the beautiful city Paris and became a famous centre for artists during the second part of the 19th century. The artwork of Marcel Bouraine, who also sometimes used the synonym, synonymous Marcel-André Derenne, was characterized by the Realism and by the ordinary life of Bouraine. The artist, who died in 1948 in France, exhibited at the „Salon des Tuileries“ and at the „Salon d'Autommn“.