LOT DETAILS

Materials:

cold-painted, parcel-gilt and silvered bronze, carved and tinted ivory on a Portor marble base

Measurements:

12.87 in. (32.70 cm.) (height) by 16.73 in. (42.50 cm.) (width) by 4.76 in. (12.10 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

base engraved D.H. Chiparus, one foot impressed 3 and with foundry tag impressed LN/Paris/JL

Literature:

Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, London, 1975, p. 76 (for the single-figure model); Bryan Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1978, p. 103 (for the five-figure model); Victor Arwas, Art Deco, London, 1980, p. 155 (for the single-figure model); Victor Arwas, Art Deco, London, 1992, p. 155 (for the single-figure model); Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, front cover and p. 60 (for the five-figure model); Alberto Shayo, Chiparus: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 61 (for the five-figure model in Etling's period catalogue sheet) and pp. 163-165, pls. 94-96 (for the three variants of the model); Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood, eds., Art Deco 1910-1939, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2003, p. 55 (for the five-figure model); Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Complete, London, 2009, p. 106 (for the five-figure model)

Provenance:

Private Collection, New York, circa 1930s; Private Collection, Palm Beach, FL, acquired from the above circa 1960; Thence by descent; Acquired from the above by the present owner