his paintings, he experimented successfully with impressionism. Most notably is his "Aprés le dejeuner", depicting a mother and a child sitting in a sun-lit garden. Most of his known paintings, however, are decorative stilllifes of flowers, vases, and hunting prey. He formed part of the French decorative art movement, the arts decoratifs, creating numerous decorative objects in various positions holding different attributes. These decorative items graced many livings rooms of the well-to-do at the time. Less known is his co-operation with ceramists, such as Alexandre Bigot (1862-1927) and Edmond Lachenal (1855-1848). Fix-Masseau created also vases (pewter), plates (stoneware), clocks (with F. Barbedienne), and chandeliers in the Art Nouveau style, exhibited numerous works at the Salon des Artistes Francais and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. At Herqueville, his residence outside Paris in the Normandy, he befriended Louis Renault, the famous car engineer and pioneering entrepreneur. After the Great War, Fix-Masseau was the first sculptor to create a celebratory statuette of a tank, the Renault F 17, highlighting the age of the machines in war, which was previously only allegorized with male nudes with swords and classizizing depictions of the female Victoria. Since 1908 until 1935, he served as director of the École Nationale d'Art Décoratif in Limoges, and was appointed curator at the Musée Adrien Dubouché. In 1926, he was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur. Between 1904 and 1920 he was a member of the Societé des artistes français. His style changed after WWI to the more austere and reductionist forms of the art déco in difference to his earlier works in exuberant Art Nouveau. While still producing high quality works, he lost his avant-garde status. In his later years, he produced a number of masks and busts for Frédéric Chopin and Charles Baudelaire, as well as numerous medals mostly as commissions for notable Parisian physicians of his time. His works are found among other institutions in the Musée d'Orsay, in the Petit Palais in Paris, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and in the Albertinum in Dresden. Selected works Musée d'Orsay Le Secret, 1894, 76x 17,5 cm x 18 c, statuette of mahogany, ivory, bronze cast at Siot-Decauville foundry Masque d' Edmond Lachenal, 1890, terra cotta, Paris (1982 gifted by the son of Pierre Fix-Masseau) Réflexion, 1900, bronze mask Buste de Jan Van Herwijnen, 1924, marble Restoration and cast of the 36 busts of the Célébrités du