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ORIGINAL 1930’s ART METAL FRENCH FIGURE by DERENNE
French Art Metal disc dancer by Derenne – a pseudonym used by Marcel Bouraine.
She was made at the Le Verrier foundry in Paris during the 1930’s and is mounted on a Portoro Marble Base
IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, with a Patinated green finish.
Size is – 25 cm's high x 22 cm’s wide x 7 cm's deep = 10 x 8 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches
The base is Portoro Marble size - 7 cm's x 7 cm's x 4.5 cm's high

Marcel Bouraine (1886–1948) was a French sculptor known for his work during the Art Deco era. His artistic creations included small statuettes, lamps, bookends, and radiator figures.
Born in Pontoise (Seine-et Oise), he studied under Jean-Alexndre-Joseph Falguiere (1881 - 1900), who had reintroduced and emphasized realism in nineteenth-century sculpture. Bouraine was captured in Germany during the First World War, and interned in Switzerland. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries. The following year he began to exhibit at the Salon d'Autommne. He executed small-scale sculptures for several French firms, including Susse Freres, Max Le Verrier and Austria's Arthur Goldscheider, often exhibiting with the latter's La Stele and L'Evolution groups. In 1928 Gabriell Argy-rousseau (1885- 1953) commissioned a number of figurines from Bouraine, mostly female nudes, but also a fountain and an illuminated group, all of which were executed in colored, translucent pate de verre. He also executed two major commissions for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition.