CAST FROM THE MODEL BY PRINCE PAUL TROUBETZKOY, CIRCA 1906

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A French bronze portrait figure of a gentleman
Cast from the model by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, Circa 1906
Standing, with hands in pockets, on a naturalistically-cast base inscribed Paul Troubetzkoy Paris 1906 and stamped to the side CIRE PERDUE A. A. HEBRARD
19¼ in. (48.9 cm.) high

Sale room notice

The sitter for this bronze by Troubetzkoy dated 1906 is Armand Dayot. A writer and art critic, Dayot (d.1934) founded the periodical L'Art et les Artistes and featured in one of its first issues an article on the work of Troubetzkoy. The latter repaid the compliment the following year with a portrait of Dayot, illustrated in the issue of April 1906.

Lot Essay

The son of an aristocratic Russian diplomat and an American musician, Troubetzkoy (d. 1938) executed portraits and busts of his friends who moved in the same international social circles as himself and his family. Impressionistic and full of nervous vitality, Troubetzkoy's work was likened to his contemporaries in the two-dimensional world, Giovanni Boldini and John Singer Sargent.

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