Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Peacock Sculpture Statue 1920 Drawings & Prints Courtauld Institute of Art (London)

Courtauld Institute of Art (London)

circa 1870

a style that John La Farge and Louis Tiffany had pioneered in the 1870s

Vincent Hospital Chapel

Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Peacock Sculpture Statue 1920 Drawings & Prints Courtauld Institute of Art (London)SOLD A fine antique Austrian Art Nouveau coldpainted bronze sculpture of a peacock by Franz Bergman, Vienna, circa 1920. The bronze depicts a remarkably lifelike peacock with it's tail feathers unfanned, its vibrant, iridescent feather train with hues of emerald green, gold, and royal blue. The bronze most likely created for the Bergman foundry by artists Bruno Zach or Carl Kauba. The bronze having the Bergman foundry stamp of a "B" within a vase and