l'Athlète Au Salut Olympique, Bronze Sculpture By Maurice Guiraud-rivière, Presented In 1933

WELCOMEOLYMPIC : very beautiful bronze subject with shaded patinadark green - brown, signed on the terrace '' M GUIRAUD RIVIERE,Etling. Paris'', on marble base.

The workis famous and remains the undeniable testimony of an era, whenMauriceGuiraud Rivière,familiar withof the themes of movement, speed and the body in tension, expresses in itexpresses the ideal of the harmonious, athletic man so dear to thethe interwar period. The sculpture depicts this handsome naked athletesaluting with arms outstretched. This is the Olympic salute chosen byPierre de Coubertin for the Olympic Games in the 1920s,the salute with the right arm folded and stretched out to the side, different from thethe Roman salute, where the arm remains straight. Produced in 1924 for thefor the Paris Olympic Games, this work was created by painterpainter, draughtsman and sculptor Maurice Guiraud Rivière.

Themonumental model was commissioned by the Seine department in1924 and delivered in 1936, then deposited at the Adolphe Chéron stadium inSaint-Maur-Des-Fossés.

Bearsa dedication plaque: '' LES OFFICIERS de RÉSERVEde VICHY - AU CAPITAINE de RÉSERVEPRORY Camille -Antoine- chevalierde le légion d'honneur. JULY 14, 1933 ''

MauriceGuiraud Rivière (1881Toulouse - 1947 Paris)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Guiraud-Rivi%C3%A8re

Vintagein very good condition:

Totaltotal: 42 cm ( including marble: 3 cm)
Width:25 cm
Depth:20 cm