Ferdinand Faivre

Ferdinand Faivre (1860–1937) was a French sculptor whose work is often characterised by the Art Nouveau style.

Marie Antoine Ferdinand Faivre was born in Marseille on 8 October 1860 and died on 19 August 1937.

[1] His work spanned designs for busts, statuettes and bas relief panels, for which he obtained many public commissions.

These included decorative groups for the Zurich Bank, for the Cairo Museum, the facade of the Royal Automobile Club in London and many buildings in Paris; among the latter was a figure of Abundance for the Ritz and the 1906 bas reliefs of the seasons for Madame Hériot's town-house.

Among the influences on him at the start of the 20th century was Art Nouveau, as can be seen in the sinuous lines of his 1900 gilt-bronze jardinière, modelled with nudes and mermaids emerging from waves,[3] or of the marble statue of Jean de la Fontaine's "The cat changed into a woman" of 1906 that he later cast in bronze.