Animal bronze - lion on marble base with artist signature

Bronze lion cast after AL Barye with artist signature on marble base.

For sale here is a masterfully handcrafted bronze sculpture, a bronze lion on a marble base with the artist's signature.

Mass:

• Length: 36 cm
• Width: 17 cm
• Height: 22 cm
  

Weight: approx. 9.8 kg
Signed: BARYE
Patina: classic brown

Masterfully crafted. Your bronze figure will be shipped in a shatter-proof box with proof of shipment the next working day.

This statue was made using the traditional lost wax method, the so-called lost mold. This thousand-year-old method is the most complex and expensive, but also the highest quality method for producing bronze sculptures. After the bronze blank is freed from the mold by breaking it, another complex process begins: chasing.

During chasing, exhaust air ducts used in this process are cut off and parts that may have been cast in multiple parts are welded together. The surfaces are then reworked with great artistic care using scrapers, punches or chisels, files, grinding and polishing tools until the surface of the sculpture has achieved its original image. Facial features, muscles or ornaments are worked out in great detail and nuances are highlighted. Each figure thus receives its individual finish, which is completed by the final patination.