Fish, Art Deco Bronze - Adelaïde Lefebvre

Scalar fish, bronze with three medal patinas, gold and green, mounted on a black marble base, Adelaïne Lefèbvre (1860-1940), signed. Base dimensions: H. 4 x L. 56 x D. 13 cm; fig. H 36 x W 50 x W 12; total: H. 40 x W. 60 x D. 14 cm Mme Adelaïde Lefèbvre (Maeterlinck-Levèvre), Ghent 04/05/1860 - Ghent 17/04/1940. Adelaïde Elive Lefèbvre is the daughter of Elisha Sabbas Lefèvre and Cécile Adelaïde Theresia from Laval. She married Louis Maeterlinck, painter and curator at the Ghent Museum. From the start of her marriage, Adé did something "unacceptable for a woman of her condition": she had her hair cut boyish. Gifted sculptor, author of pretty terracotta, she has a preference for scantily clad women. During an exhibition of young artists from Ghent at the end of the 19th century, his works were rejected by the jury for indecency. At a charity sale she presents a Bather with a beautiful body, young and naked. Once again refused, the work will finally be accepted after the artist has made it a pearl skirt in white green, evoking raindrops ...