Marcel Andre Bouraine - Artist Info

About Marcel Andre Bouraine

Name variants

Andre Bouraine, Marcel-André Bourraine, Derenne
  • Biography

    Born in Pontoise (Seine-et Oise), Marcel Andre Bouraine studied under Jean-Alexndre-Joseph Falguiere (1881 - 1900), who had reintroduced and emphasized realism in nineteenth-century sculpture.

    Bouraine was captured in Germany during the First World War, and interned in Switzerland. In 1922, he exhibited at the Salon des Tuileries. The following year he began to exhibit at the Salon d'Autommne.

    He executed small-scale sculptures for several French firms, including Susse Freer, La Verrier, and Arthur Goldscheider, often exhibiting with the latter's La Stele and L'Evolution groups. He worked under the psuedonym Derenne for LeVerrier Company.

    In 1928 Gabriell Argy-Rousseau (1885- 1953) commissioned a number of figurines f...

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