Aurore Onu
Aurore Onu (* Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania ; . Bl 1920-1930) was a Romanian sculptor of Art Deco .
Life
Aurore Onus' life dates are not known in the literature. She was from Bucharest and moved to Paris in the 1920s , where she entered into a relationship with French sculptor Marcel Bouraine .
Onu was active as a sculptor of figures in the Art Deco style between 1920 and 1930. Her works showed predominantly athletic female figures on marble plinths, which "embodied the stylish and independent woman typical of the Art Deco period". She made a series of bronze and ivory sculptures for the Parisian foundry Les Neveux de Jules Lehmann ; other works come from the Edmond Etling foundry . At the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1924 she showed her work Bacchante au Thyrse , a fauna with a circular thyrsos . She exhibited several times at this annual salon.
A table lamp made in 1925 by the sculptor Max Le Verrier with a seated female figure holding an illuminated glass ball depicting the moon on her knees and hands bears the title Aurore Onu . A bas-relief made by the sculptor Raymonde Guerbe , which she showed at the Salon of the Société du Salon d'Automne in 1925 , bears the title Aurore .
Works (selection)
- La danseuse
- Danseur de cerf , 1920
- Invoquée , 1920
- Bacchante au Thyrse , 1924
- Chasseresse poursuivant une antilope , 1925
- Joueurs de Ball , 1925
- Masque de danse , around 1925
- Atlanta , about 1930
literature
- Alberto Shayo: Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club 2016, ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 186.
- Katharine Morrison McClinton: Art Deco. A Guide for Collectors. Crown Publishers, 1972. ISBN 0-51750-076-0 , p. 8.
- Alastair Duncan : The Encyclopedia of Art Deco. Knickerbocker Press, 1998. ISBN 1-57715-046-5 , pp. 32, 134.
Web links
- Aurore Onu. In: artnet , with pictures of works by Aurore Onus.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club 2016, ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 186.
- ^ Aurore Onu (Romanian, Early 20th Century). ( Memento of November 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hickmet Fine Arts .
- ↑ Lucy Fischer: Designing Women. Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form. Columbia University Press, 2013. ISBN 0-23150-057-2 , pp. 144.
- ↑ Image of the figure Aurore Onu on morganstricklandantiques.com: Max le Verrier, figural Art Deco lamp.
- ^ Alberto Shayo: Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club 2016, ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 116.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Onu, Aurore |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century or 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1925 |