3PC ART DECO LISTED ARTIST GEORGES VDe VOORDE SCULPTURE Start Price USD 1,795.00 Current Price USD 1,795.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 05, 2008 End Time Saturday, January 03, 2009 Location christmastreepins See more about '3PC ART DECO LISTED ARTIST GEORGES VDe VOORDE SCULPTURE' Description This is a FRENCH ART DECO 3-PC SIGNED SET TITLED VANITE, NUDE + PEACOCK, BRONZE with MARBLE. It is the ultimate Art Deco set: An exquisite 1925 bronze, metal and marble 3-piece sculpture with garniture by listed artist Georges Van de Voorde (1878-1970). The piece is entitled Vanite (Vanity) and portrays a beautiful lounging female nude teasing a peacock with one of its own feathers. She is a flirtacious, languid lady Flapper stretched across the table-cut marble, flanked by a pair of considerable garniture urn-like pieces of butterscotch and black marble. The main piece is approx. 20 x 10 inches, quite large. This 1920s piece is signed and an engraved metal plate is riveted to the marble in front. Most such sets are unsigned, and ones that are signed often are not by a listed artist. Such pieces by Van de Voorde, a recognized and prize-winning Salon member, are extremely rare. The large, dimensional bronze peacock is perfect, but a few areas on the Flapper need to be resilvered, which costs $150, so we lowered the price here by $500. Grand sculpture Art Deco of bronze and marble from 1925 by renowned sculptor  Georges van de Voorde (1878-1970), who won many important art prizes.  The nude here is a Flapper, a flirtacious young woman of the Roaring Twenties. She laughs while holding a feather teasingly above a peacock, to whom the feather belongs. Who is more vain, the bird or the 'bird'? That is the title of this important sculpture, Vanity. (But in French, Vanite, as here.) With the sculpture come two garnitures to flank either side. It is signed  Van de Voorde, Sculpteur. He is a 'listed artist.' His work is very hard to find. Thanks for looking. Please pay actual shipping cost. Actual shipping cost supercedes amount noted in box below because we have no idea of cost, dependent on to destination where sculptures are shipped. Place a Bid!