[françois Pompon] Auguste Perret - Original Signed Photograph.

[François POMPON]Auguste PERRET(1874.1954)Original signed photograph.Vintage silver print – 1924.Photo from the Chevojon studios (stamp on the back).Format: 17 x 23 cm._________________________________________Magnificent photograph showing the famous weather vane rooster by Pompon installed on the spire of the church of Saint-Vaury (Creuse), dedicated by the French architect to his colleague from Grenoble, Alfred Rome:Rooster of the church of St Vaury (by Pompon).To my colleague and friend Alfred Rome.A.Perret._________________________________________Following a fire caused by lightning in 1921, the bell tower of the church of Saint-Vaury was rebuilt by the Perret brothers, specialists in reinforced concrete, in 1924. The spire, formed of four slender fins, made of reinforced concrete, linked by claustras, is crowned by the rooster of François Pompon commissioned by Perret. The Perret Frères firm was one of the most important architectural agencies of the first half of the 20th century, of international renown. The Perret brothers (Auguste, Gustave and Claude) continued the search for a new classicism, based on the use of reinforced concrete of which Auguste was the principal French theoretician. He was also a professor and workshop leader at the École des Beaux-arts and first president of the Order of Architects in 1941. Among their numerous achievements in France and abroad are villas, private mansions, apartment buildings, artists' residences and studios, industrial and administrative buildings, theaters, museums, chapels, churches... and above all the reconstruction, after the Second World War, between 1945 and 1960, of the city of Le Havre, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005.