'BREASTING THE TAPE', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A RUNNER**

CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS

Details

'BREASTING THE TAPE', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A RUNNER**
Cast and Carved From a Model by Ferdinand Preiss
On green onyx base, the base inscribed F. Preiss and impressed with Preiss-Kassler foundry monogram
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

cf. Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, 1975, p. 97; Bryan Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, 1978, p. 272; F.M. Ricci, ed., Isadora Duncan, 1979, pp. 70-71 and Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, 1992, p. 176 for illustrations of this model.