'RUSSIAN DANCERS', CIRCA 1925

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DEMETRE CHIPARUS (1886-1947)
'RUSSIAN DANCERS', CIRCA 1925
gilt, patinated and enamelled bronze and ivory, on mottled red and portor marble base
22 in. (56 cm.) high
base engraved D. H. Chiparus

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Lot Essay

Similar example illustrated:
B. Catley, Art Deco and other Figures, Suffolk, 1978, p. 85
V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 58;
A. Shayo, Chiparus, Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 148, fig. 79.

Demetre Chiparus was inspired by acclaimed dancers Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein who performed in Sergei Diaghilev's Scheherazade in Paris, in 1910. This Ballet Russes production was based on a Rimsky-Korsakov poem about the Arabian Nights and narrated the tragic love affair of a sultana and her slave. Chiparus references here the avant-garde costume designs of Leon Bakst which Diaghilev commissioned.

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