'BAYADÈRE', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A DANCER**

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'BAYADÈRE', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A DANCER**
CAST AND CARVED FROM AMODEL BY DEMÊTRE CHIPARUS, FRENCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

20 7/8in. (53cm.) high, including triangular veined black marble base inscribed MADE IN FRANCE with attached cold-painted and gilt-bronze relief of two dancers inscribed D.H. Chiparus

Lot Essay

Bayadère was edited both in bronze and bronze and ivory.

cf. B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 87 for a bronze example