GEORGES LAURENT BADEAU (1898-1964) & ALEXIS RUDIER (FOUNDER) Elephant, circa 1925. Shaded brown patina bronze proof on a quadrangular base in red marble with white and black veins. Signed "G.L Badeau" and marked "Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris" on the terrace. H. 32.5 cm (including base H. 4 cm); W. 32 cm; D. 19 cm. The bronze is dented, the marble is missing and chipped. Bibliography Pierre Loiselet, Georges-Laurent Badeau, un grand sculpteur inconnu, L'Éclair, September 21, 1925, for mention of an elephant presented by Georges Laurent Badeau at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1925 (n.p.). Salon d'Automne 1925: Catalogue de peinture, dessin, sculpture... exposés aux Tuileries du 26 septembre au 2 novembre 1925, Imprimerie Ernest Puyfourcat, Paris, 1928, model of an "elephant" referenced under no. 56 and mentioned on p. 91. Gaston Varenne, Le Salon d'Automne, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, November 1925, p. 286 for a reference to an elephant presented by Georges Laurent Badeau at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1925. Salon d'Automne 1928: Catalogue de peinture, dessin, sculpture... exposés au Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées du 4 novembre au 16 décembre 1928, Imprimerie Ernest Puyfourcat, Paris, 1928, model of a "bronze elephant" referenced under no. 99 and mentioned on p. 128. This model was probably exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1925 and 1928, alongside another sculpture of a charging Bison. The model of the latter may be the one currently in the collections of the Musée d'Art Art de Paris (n°inv. AMS 613).