Lot 291: Louis-Henri Nicot

Louis-Henri Nicot
French, 1878-1944
a standing greyhound
signed and dated: L.H. NicoT / 1911 and with the MERONI RADICE CIRE PERDUE PARIS foundry cachet
bronze, dark brown patina, on a veined green marble base
bronze: 31 by 31.5 cm., 122/8 by 12 3/8 in
base: 3.5 cm., 1 3/8 in.
Nicot was born in Rennes where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts, before moving to Paris where he had a prominent career as a sculptor. From 1906 to 1912 he exhibited at the Salons des Independants, becoming a societaire of the latter and winning a gold medal and other honours. From 1922 he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, whose members gave him a retrospective exhibition. He was made a knight of the Legion d'honneur and an officier de l'Instruction Publique. His subject-matter, like so many, was deeply affected by the Great War, and he also had a fascination for the favoured sculptor of Anne of Brittany, Michel Colombe (1430-1512). Nicot disappeared in the year of France's liberation, 1944.