a French dark patinated bronze, Valsuani Foundry, Paris, circa 1930, modelled as a camel-mounted Bedouin on naturalistic oblong base, signed in the bronze to terrace 'A. BARDERY', foundry seal to side of base 'CIRE / PERDUE / C. VALSUANI', 30cm high

A pupil of Injalbert and Vital Cornu at the Beaux-arts and an ‘hors concours’ member of the Salon des Artistes, Bardery received a grant in 1911 to travel to North Africa, subsequently executing a number of ‘Orientalist’ themed works, receiving the prize of the Société Coloniale des Artistes Français pour l'Algérie and showing at the Paris Exposition Coloniale in 1931.