Spelter statue by Afred-Jean Foretay,Fraises au Champagne
Height: 13.5".---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wiki:Alfred Foretay was born in 1861 to the architect John-Henry Foretay. Foretay initially worked in his father's office. At the age of 16 he went to Paris, where in 1877 he attended Alexandre Falguière's sculpture department at the École des Beaux-Arts . He stayed in the capital for a few years, where he exhibited in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français . As a student of Falguières, he received an Honorable Mention in 1891 and a gold medal in 1904. [1]In 1911 he returned to Switzerland and earned his living primarily with plastic architectural jewelry. After a stay in the south of France, he also began to devote himself to landscape painting. He returned to France between 1918 and 1935. He married around 1919. After contacts with various masters of sculpture and French painting, he decided to return to Switzerland with his wife and daughter. Fortay left behind remarkable sculptural art. In addition to numerous decorative sculptural works, Fortay made numerous statuettes and busts in the Art Nouveau style, but also decorative vessels made of tin and alloys. [1

Good condition overall