Maurice Pico Biography
a.k.a. PICAUD, Maurice
1900 - 1977
was a french architect, interior designer and artist.   He was an  interior designer who created the dancing lady facade over the entrance to the Folies Bergeres building in Paris. The facade depicts the dancer Lila Nikolska, who posed for the sculpture.

Pico, his real name is Maurice Picaud and he was a French, multi talented architect, designer and painter. He trained at the Ecole Boulle, he worked for the Ruhlmann furniture company, and also distinguished himself as a newspaper cartoonist putting his talent to, among others, Science and Life, Sports, Auto, Le Matin, etc. Some of his creations typical of the Art Deco period are visible to all, like the dancing lady facade over the entrance to the Folies Bergeres building in Paris which depicts the dancer Lila Nikolska, who posed for the sculpture, and the murals inside the Hotel de Ville and the Council Chamber of Montdidier (Somme).