DECONAMIC is the official reseller of Max Le Verrier Art Deco lamps, sculptures and objects for the Benelux.
All items are cast by the great-grandson of Max Le Verrier using the original moulds.
A certificate of authenticity is provided with each item.

 

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DECONAMIC is the official reseller of Max Le Verrier Art Deco lamps, sculptures, and objects for the Benelux.
All these items are cast by the great-grandson of Max Le Verrier using the original moulds.
You will receive a certificate of authenticity with each item.

On this page, you have an overview of available lamps and sculptures.
Among them, best-sellers are Art Deco lamps like Clarté in various sizes, the Espana lamp, animals like the Baghera and Ouganda panthers, Delassement bookends, etc.
If there is a specific model that you are looking for, contact us to find out about the possibilities to order it.

HISTORY
Max Le Verrier, 1891 – 1973

Louis Octave Maxime Le Verrier was born in Neuilly sur Seine to a Belgian mother and a Parisian father who was a goldsmith and jeweller. He served in the French army during the First World War before studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, where he met artists and fellow students Pierre Le Faguays and Marcel Bouraine; the three artists became lifelong friends.

In 1919, Max Le Verrier opened his own foundry, producing sculptures and decorative objects, lamps, bookends, and car mascots. Drawn by his love of animals to zoos and circuses, he carved his first sculpture, the famous pelican in a typical 1925 style. He signed the work with his pseudonym, Artus.

During this period, Max Le Verrier created many models of animals, such as panthers like Baghera, Ouganda, and Jungle, an impressive Lion, storks, squirrels, and horses, most of which were cast in art metal rather than bronze. In front of the cages of the Jardin des Plantes, Max Le Verrier created his sculpture of a monkey with an umbrella, inspired by a three-year-old chimpanzee named Boubou. A great friendship was born between the monkey and the artist; Boubou, held by the zookeeper outside the cage, would strike a pose in exchange for bananas, awaiting the artist each morning.
The sculpture Pluie received a medal at the Salon des Humoristes in 1927.

Among the artists whose work he cast were sculptors such as Pierre Le Faguays (pseudonym Fayral), Marcel Bouraine (pseudonym Derenne & Briand), Raymonde Guerbe, Jules Masson, Charles, Janle, Denis, De Marco, and Garcia, as well as his own works.
These items were sold in his atelier at 100 rue du Théâtre in Paris.

Max Le Verrier was a Full Member of the Société des Artistes Décorateurs and exhibited there regularly. He had a stand at the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels in the Grand Palais, where his display was awarded a Gold Medal. His stand at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition was awarded a Medal of Honour.

In 1928, Max Le Verrier sculpted his famous Clarté lamp, depicting a nude woman on tiptoe with an illuminated globe in her outstretched hands, which became the main piece of his collection. He used three different life models: one for the head, one for the chest, and one for the legs, for which he asked a dancer performing in Josephine Baker’s ballets to pose.
This model came in four sizes: Lueur Lumineuse, Lumina, Clarté, and Clarté life-size. Most of Le Verrier’s figurines represent maidens with similar idealized athleticism.

The Clarté lamp was displayed in the Lumières exhibition at the Georges Pompidou Center from May to August 1985 and in the 1987 Made in France exhibition at Harrod’s in London, as well as in the De main de maître exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. It was also exhibited in the Martinez Hotel in Cannes in 2000.

Max Le Verrier worked throughout the 1930s. He was arrested in 1944 for his work in the French Resistance, but after the war, he continued to sculpt until his death in 1973.

There is a new book coming out, available on our website soon!

Max le Verrier, un esprit Art Déco.
Bénédicte Wattel & Damien Blanchet Le Verrier.
Editions Louvre Victoire.

General information on the work of Max Le Verrier:
Art Deco sculpture, Alistair Duncan.
Art Deco sculpture, Victor Arwas, Academy.
Art Deco and other figures, Brian Catley, Antique collectors club.
Art Deco: A Guide for Collectors, Katherine Morrison McClinton.
Statuettes of the Art Deco period, Alberto Shayo.
Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, H. Berman, Abage.
Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, E. Benezit, Gründ.
The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, James Mackay, Antique Collectors Club.
Dictionnaire illustré des sculpteurs animaliers & fondeurs de l’antiquité à nos jours, Jean Charles Hachet, Argus Valentines.