Anne-Marie PROFILLET (1898-1939). Lion n°2, 1937. Black patina bronze signed on the terrace, lost wax stamp of the Valsuani foundry. Height 42.1 cm - Width 75.4 cm - Depth 24.4 cm Exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1937. Provenance: artist's family. Note: early on, Anne-Marie Profillet turned to animal sculpture. animal sculpture. She trained with Édouard Navellier, whose teaching who encouraged her to work from nature, notably during outdoor sessions at the Jardin des Plantes. It was in this context that she met François Pompon in 1928 and forged a lasting friendship. Sharing the same foundry, they both participated in the revival of animal art, based on the simplification of forms and careful observation of the living world. The original plaster cast of this bronze is preserved in the collections of the Musée de Vire.