Silvered Bronze Art Deco Statue Aurore Onu

Silvered Bronze Art Deco Statue Pair featuring a woman reaching grasping the antlers of a deer. Designed by Aurore Onu. Outstanding classic and cubist design, female figure flowing and blowing hair riding the magic horse (or is it a gazelle?) The mythical image rendered in the Art Deco style takes the imagination beyond the matching bookend designs. Each piece represents a serious sculpture on its own, but together a powerful pair.

Aurore Onu 
Born in Bucharest, Romania, and moved to Paris in the 1920s. There she met the sculptor Marcel André Bouraine and became his companion (at this time they were neighbors of Pierre Le Faguays). Although unsigned, the sculptress almost never signed pieces, you can clearly see the attribution in the design and I’ve seen nothing like it before.