Gold Plated Brooch - Art Deco Signed Marcel Renard (1893-1974)

Gold plated Art Deco brooch signed Marcel RENARD (1893-1974) punch on the support of the brooch noted "France" Marcel Renard was first a pupil of his father, Léopold Renard. He entered the School of Fine Arts in Lyon in the workshops of Aubert and Jean Ploquin, then he was admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the workshops of Rost and Alfred Boucher. He obtained the second Grand Prix de Rome in medal engraving, and a gold medal at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925. Fellow student of Marcel Gimond, Georges Salendre, Louis Bertola and Adolphe Penin, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français as well as at the Salon des artistes décorateurs. Marcel Renard settled in Paris in 1920 and worked with Michel Roux-Spitz on his Lyon sites, whether it was the villa Weitz (1923), the restaurant Berrier et Millet (1924-1928, with Alfred Janniot, destroyed) , again from the Vetter burial in the Croix-Rousse cemetery in Lyon (1924)2 or from the ornamentation of the new facade of the Galeries Lafayette in Lyon, in the former Cordeliers department stores. His works are kept, among others, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille (Donation Laporte-Pellegrin), at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon2, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London3, at the Design Museum Gent in Ghent, and at the Dansmuseet (in) in Stockholm. National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. Source: Marcel Renard - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)