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A PAIR OF FRENCH ART NOUVEAU GILT-BRONZE LAMPS
Lot 95 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MILWAUKEE (LOTS 94-95)

A PAIR OF FRENCH ART NOUVEAU GILT-BRONZE LAMPS

CAST BY SIOT, PARIS, FROM MODELS BY FRANCOIS-RAOUL LARCHE, CIRCA 1890

Closed20 October 2011

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ART NOUVEAU GILT-BRONZE LAMPS
CAST BY SIOT, PARIS, FROM MODELS BY FRANCOIS-RAOUL LARCHE, CIRCA 1890
Each of wheat-sheaf form, with infants peering out, enclosing four lights to the top and surmounted on one by a young girl and on the other by a young boy, signed RAOUL LARCHE, inscrbed Siot Paris and one numbered T869 and the other T555, electrified
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high (2)

Milwaukee Auction Galleries, 16 February 1986, lot 2258.

Specialist note

A student of L'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, François-Raoul Larche debuted his work at the Société des Artistes Français in 1881 and exhibited his work regularly at the Paris Salon between 1884 and 1911. Though perhaps best known for his smaller-scale objets d'art, such as lots 94 and 95, the artist received a gold medal for sculpture at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, where he exhibited an explosive figural group entitled La tempête et ses nuées.