'SOLO', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**

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'SOLO', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY DEMÊTRE CHIPARUS

--19½in. (49.5cm.) high, including elaborate white onyx base signed 'D H. chiparus'

Lot Essay

The present model is one of the figures from Chiparus' five figure group titled Les Girls, which was also edited as a three figure group.

Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 76 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 63 and A. Shayo, Chiparus: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 163, cat. no. 94