'Spring Awakening', a pink and grey tinted gilt bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a bare breasted young woman wearing high heels, short wrap around the hips and robe draped from the shoulders, standing on a rocky outcrop with arms outstretched and gaze lifted towards the sky, on a stepped octagonal striated black onyx column, signed in the bronze
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'Spring Awakening', a pink and grey tinted gilt bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a bare breasted young woman wearing high heels, short wrap around the hips and robe draped from the shoulders, standing on a rocky outcrop with arms outstretched and gaze lifted towards the sky, on a stepped octagonal striated black onyx column, signed in the bronze See illustration
Lot Essay
C.f. Victor Arwas, Aer Deco Figures (London 1992), pp.184-5