Bronze The Trainer by Alexandre Kelety

A magnificent bronze mounted on a black marble base, an important piece created by the Hungarian artist Alexandre Kéléty (1874-1940). Alexandre Kéléty's brilliant career was almost exclusively in the Art Deco period. This piece, entitled "The Release" in English, illustrates a group of four hunting dogs held back by their trainer. The artist's work reveals the power of the dogs and effectively expresses the movement of the scene depicted. Animals, which he rendered with strength and grace, were among his favorite subjects. Born in Budapest, Kéléty worked as an artist, sculptor, painter, and engraver from 1918 until his death in 1940. Kéléty married Hélène Grün Kéléty, daughter of the Russian painter Maurice Grün, who was naturalized French. At the end of the First World War, he emigrated to France, where he became a student of the Hungarian painter and engraver Imre Karoly Simay in Toulouse. He then continued his studies in Paris. He also created chryselephantine busts and statuettes depicting dancers and mythological figures in the Art Deco style. His preferred materials were bronze, ivory, marble, and ceramic.