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A CONTINENTAL POLYCHROME METAL FIGURE OF AN ARAB MAIDEN

AFTER WAAGEN, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A CONTINENTAL POLYCHROME METAL FIGURE OF AN ARAB MAIDEN
AFTER WAAGEN, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The base inscribed A.Waagen
36½in. (92.5cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Born in the Baltic Port of Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipeda, Lithuania), Arthur Waagen (d.1898) pursued his career as a sculptor in Paris, where he was inspired by the fashion for the oriental. Renowned for his fine and realistic modelling, Waagen produced a series of groups and figures with a North African flavour.

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