French Art Nouveau School, ca. 1900

French Art Nouveau School, ca. 1900.
"The clover".
Calamine sculpture painted in gold and reddish tones. Circular onyx base.
Signed "Antoni" on the back. With titled plaque.
Exhibits wear consistent with age and use.
Measurements: 46 x 20 x 15 cm.

A nymph or fairy of nature is the protagonist of this sculpture. The woman, of delicate and slender forms, stands in the center of the pedestal. The delicate floating and undulating forms of the sculpture allow us to link it to the Modernism or Art Nouveau movement, which had in nature and popular mythology, populated by fairies, elves and nymphs, two of its main sources of inspiration.