Alexandre Kéléty

Alexandre Kéléty (* before 1918 in Budapest , Hungary ; † 1940 ) was a Hungarian sculptor .

Life

Kéléty's date of birth is not known in the literature; he was active as an artist from 1918 until his death in 1940, including as a painter and engraver.

Kéléty was married to Hélène Grün Kéléty, a daughter of the Russian-French painter Maurice Grün.

At the end of the First World War he emigrated to France, where he was a student of the Hungarian painter and engraver Imre Simay in Toulouse . He later studied in Paris. In his work he often depicted animal and children's motifs, but also made busts and chryselephantine statuettes of dancers and mythological figures in the style of Art Deco . His preferred materials were often bronze, ivory, marble or ceramic.

In the interwar period he exhibited several times at the Paris salons. At the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1927 he showed a terracotta bust and in 1928 and 1930 figures made of bronze and ivory, all of which were made and published by the Éditeur d'art (art publisher) Arthur Goldscheider . At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern in 1925, his work was shown at both Goldscheider's and Edmond Etling 's stands. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 he showed sculptures that had been handcrafted by the fine art foundries Etling and Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann , as well as animal sculptures made by M. Ollier.

Kéléty also incorporated the Art Deco style into everyday objects he designed, such as electric lights, ashtrays and censer.

Works (selection)

• Buste d'homme
• Parrots, 1930
• Une girafe assise
• Génie à la lampe
• Les trois enfants
• Les Haleurs
• Archer et ses deux levriers
• Lanceur de javelot
• Pierrot et Pierrette
• Les Mouettes
• Désobéissant
• Panthère
• Un homme assistant tenant un arc
• Un oiseau marin les ailes déployées
• Importante épreuve
• Danseuse à la culotte bouffante
• Danseuse à l'éventail
• Oisillon

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  Black Panther

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  Hunting dogs

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  Freddy and Polichinella

literature

• Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 136.
• Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 . Pp. 231, 573.
• Victor Arwas : Art deco sculpture. Academy Editions, 1992. p. 238.
• Bryan Catley: Art Deco and Other Figures . Baron Publishing, 1978. pp. 187, 192, 326.

Web links

• Alexandre Kelety (Hungarian, 1918-1940) . In: artnet , with pictures of Kéléty's work.