Lot 82
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'RUSSIAN DANCERS', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY GROUP**

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'RUSSIAN DANCERS', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY GROUP**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY DEMÊTRE CHIPARUS, FRENCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

22in. (55.8cm.) high, including elaborate variegated black and rouge marble base signed D H. chiparus and inscribed ETLING PARIS'

Lot Essay

This group was also marketed as a pair of single figures, each on an elaborate arched base. The two dancers have been identified as Vaslev Nijinsky and Ida Rubenstein dancing in the Ballets Russes production of Scheharazarde which was first performed in 1910.

cf. B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 85 for another example of this model.