'THE SPLIT SKIRT', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**

Details

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

--20½in. (52cm.) high, including brown onyx base signed 'Chiparus'

Literature

A. Shayo, Chiparus: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 147, cat. no. 78

Lot Essay

Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 48 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 102 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 29