Anne-Marie PROFILLET (1898-1939). Crowned crane n°1. Bronze with green patina, sand cast. Signed on the terrace. Model of 1928. Height : 27 cm - Width : 23 cm Provenance: artist's family. Note: the plaster copy is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, and a smaller copy in the Musée de Vire. Two other bronze examples are in private collections. The Musée de la Piscine in Roubaix also has a bronze example. Anne-Marie Profillet quickly set her sights on animal sculpture, taking classes with Edouard Navellier and becoming accustomed to studying outdoors, particularly at the Jardin des Plantes. It was here that she met and befriended François Pompon in 1928. Pompon's characteristics can be seen in her work, with its "smooth" sculpture, and she participates with him in the revival of animal art. On display: - A bronze example (four listed with ours) was exhibited at the XXe salon des Artistes décorateurs de Paris in 1930. - Anne-Marie Profillet and Camille Corot, Musée de Vire, 1975.