No. 11374109

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L. Carvin - Sculpture, greyhounds
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L. Carvin - Sculpture, greyhounds

Signed L. Carvin, hunting scene. 1930 Very rare model Condition: excellent Age: 1930 Material: Babbitt. Origin: France. Dimensions: height 26 cm, length 72 cm, thickness 13 cm Colours: the dogs are very lightly coloured and the rest seems natural. Louis Albert Carvin, born in Paris on August 7, 1875, died January 6, 1951, is a French sculptor of characters and animals. Born of a father painter and illustrator, Louis Albert Carvin was admitted to the school of fine arts of Paris where he was the student of Emmanuel Frémiet and Georges Gardet. He exhibited at the Salons of the end of the XIXth century in 1933. He got an honourable mention in 1894. Carvin carried out the Muse of aviation, trophy bronze offered on May 1, 1909, by Léon Bollée, president of the Aero Club of Sarthe, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright (which is still in their home in Hawthorne Hill at Dayton3). He made their bust on the occasion of the Michelin Cup at Pau, in 1908 He used deers, hinds, lions, panthers, birds, the wolfhounds, sometimes horses as models... Registered shipping via Colissimo or equivalent

No. 11374109

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L. Carvin - Sculpture, greyhounds

L. Carvin - Sculpture, greyhounds

Signed L. Carvin, hunting scene. 1930
Very rare model
Condition: excellent
Age: 1930
Material: Babbitt.
Origin: France.
Dimensions: height 26 cm, length 72 cm, thickness 13 cm
Colours: the dogs are very lightly coloured and the rest seems natural.

Louis Albert Carvin, born in Paris on August 7, 1875, died January 6, 1951, is a French sculptor of characters and animals.
Born of a father painter and illustrator, Louis Albert Carvin was admitted to the school of fine arts of Paris where he was the student of Emmanuel Frémiet and Georges Gardet. He exhibited at the Salons of the end of the XIXth century in 1933. He got an honourable mention in 1894.

Carvin carried out the Muse of aviation, trophy bronze offered on May 1, 1909, by Léon Bollée, president of the Aero Club of Sarthe, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright (which is still in their home in Hawthorne Hill at Dayton3). He made their bust on the occasion of the Michelin Cup at Pau, in 1908
He used deers, hinds, lions, panthers, birds, the wolfhounds, sometimes horses as models...

Registered shipping via Colissimo or equivalent

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