Lot 31
31
'NUBIAN DANCER', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**

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

--16in. (41cm.) high, including veined black marble base signed 'D H chiparus' and inscribed 'ETLING PARIS' and inset with silvered bronze relief inscribed 'Chiparus'

Lot Essay

Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 20 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 80 and F. M. Ricci, ed. Isadora Duncan, Paris, 1979, pp. 154, 155 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 70 and A. Shayo, Chiparus: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 106, cat. no. 38