Woman With Greyhounds Signed Louis Riché

Statue representing a chryselephantine signed by "Louis Riché" (1877-1949) composed of two silver greyhounds (borzois) and a woman wearing a headdress and a sumptuous decoration on her patinated bronze dress. Its magnificent portor marble and onyx base decorated with small onyx diamonds is typical of the refined workmanship of the 1930s. It is the largest and finest detailed model known to this artist. Louis Riché (1877-1949) is a French sculptor. A pupil of Georges Gardet, he made his first exhibition in Paris, at the age of nineteen in 1896, at the Salon des Artistes Français. Riché sculpts many animals, including many dogs, cats and other felines, treated with naturalism. He exhibits regularly at the Salon except during the two world wars. Louis Riché works with many materials, such as marble, wax, sometimes silver, ivory, and mainly bronze in collaboration with the foundry Thiébault Frères for the casting of his models. paulazzopardi.com