Pierre Marie Poisson’s Terracotta “Seine” in Niort, Model for a Statue on the Liner Île de France

The Bernard d'Agesci Museum in Niort holds a terracotta sculpture, "The Seine", created by Pierre Marie Poisson between 1925 and 1927. The work served as the model for the monumental statue that was later to adorn the grand salon of the famous transatlantic liner Île de France. The sculpture is a vivid example of the Art Deco style and symbolises the era of luxurious ocean voyages of the 1920s, when the finest French artists were enlisted to furnish the interiors of these floating palaces

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The stone Triumphal Arch on Gorky Street in Moscow in the 1930s.

Bove's Triumphal Arch on Tverskaya in Moscow, dismantled in 1936 and rebuilt on Kutuzovsky Prospekt

A view of the Triumphal Arch in Moscow in the 1930s. As you can see, the stone Triumphal Gates, built to the design of the architect Osip Bove in 1829 - 1834, still stand on Tverskaya, then Gorky Street. In 1936 the arch was dismantled. The monument would be recreated only

Names of battles against the Russian army on the arch and the Austerlitz bas-relief

The arch carries no Russian towns in the sense of places “taken”; what it carries are the names of battles fought against the Russian army. They fall into several groups. The campaign of 1812 Battles fought on the territory of the Russian Empire are inscribed in the French transcription of

The ballet “The Flames of Paris” from its 1932 Leningrad premiere to the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky stagings

The ballet "The Flames of Paris" was staged in Leningrad for the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution. The premiere took place on 7 November 1932 at the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet, as the Mariinsky Theatre was then called. The music was written by Boris Asafyev,

Odilon Redon's Head of the Virgin after Da Vinci on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

The Da Vinci theme is unexpectedly continued by one of the most uncanny of French Symbolists, Odilon Redon, with a head of the Virgin inspired precisely by Da Vinci's unfinished painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (3 photos). I photographed the Redon at the opening of

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Bove's Triumphal Arch on Tverskaya in Moscow, dismantled in 1936 and rebuilt on Kutuzovsky Prospekt

Names of battles against the Russian army on the arch and the Austerlitz bas-relief

The ballet “The Flames of Paris” from its 1932 Leningrad premiere to the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky stagings

Odilon Redon's Head of the Virgin after Da Vinci on view at the Fondation Louis Vuitton