LOT 27

A 'L'Air' aviation illuminating desk-piece depicting Louis Bleriot's Channel crossing monoplane, after August Moreau, French, circa 1910,

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Lot 27

A 'L'Air' aviation illuminating desk-piece depicting Louis Bleriot's Channel crossing monoplane, after August Moreau, French, circa 1910,

Goodwood Members' Meeting|19 April 2026, 11:00 BST|Chichester, Goodwood

A 'L'Air' aviation illuminating desk-piece depicting Louis Bleriot's Channel crossing monoplane, after August Moreau, French, circa 1910,

signed to left of base and with foundry mark to rear, bronzed and patinated pewter hollow-cast allegorical figure of a draped nude female in the art nouveau style, holding aloft a flaming torch, arising from the flame appears a representation of a Louis Bleriot Monoplane XI aeroplane of bronze framework construction, the figure standing on a winged ornate platform above a marble base applied with a plaque marked 'l'Air la science domine l'univers par Augusto Moreau (Medaille D'or)', the aeroplane measures 32cm long with 32cm wingspan representing the Monoplane in which Louis Bleriot made his historic and memorable flight over the Channel from France to England in 1909, the underside of wings each fitted with bulb carriers fitted with bulbs for illumination, wired with flex and UK mains plug, standing 77cm high overall, and offered with two spare bulbs.
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Footnotes

August Moreau (1834-1917) was born in Dijon, Paris 1834. He went to the French school with A. Millet', A. Dumont and Thomas Alumn, where he studied under Mathurin Moreau. His debut was in the Paris show room with French artists and the Societaire de Groupment Artistique, where his work was well received and won several exhibition medals in the 1880s and 90s. His sculpture work was awarded gold medals in America and Brazil in 1889 and a bronze in Paris in 1900. His works of art are displayed in the most important museums of the world.

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