Lot 79
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'STARFISH', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A DANCER**

Details
'STARFISH', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A DANCER**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY DEMÊTRE CHIPARUS, FRENCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

29¾in. (75.5cm.) high, including elaborate green and brown onyx and marble base signed D H. chiparus and faintly inscribed ETLING.PARIS

Lot Essay

cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, London, 1975, p. 24; B. Catlet, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 83 for other examples of this model which was also marketed in a smaller size.