BOURAINE, Marcel, (French, 1886-1948): Nude with 2 Antelope, Bronze, 20 1/4''h, signed on base, LN and JL Paris foundry mark. Condition- wear to patina, several scuffs, visible joint in right arm. Marcel-Andre Bouraine was born in Pontoise (Seine-et Oise), He studied under Jean-Alexndre-Joseph Falguiere (1881 - 1900), who had reintroduced and emphasized realism in nineteenth-century sculpture. Bouraine was captured in Germany during the First World War, and interned in Switzerland. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries. The following year he began to exhibit at the Salon d'Autommne. He executed small-scale sculptures for several French firms, including Susse Freer, La Verrier, and Arthur Goldscheider, often exhibiting with the latter's La Stele and L'Evolution groups. In 1928 Gabriell Argy-rousseau (1885- 1953) commissioned a number of figurines from Bouraine, mostly female nudes, but also a fountain and an illuminated group, all of which were executed in colored, translucent pate de verre.