Lot 34
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'ANTINEA', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**

Details
'ANTINEA', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY DEMÊTRE CHIPARUS

inscribed 'DEUXIÈME ÉPREUVE FRANCE'--26¼in. (66.6cm.) high, including elaborate veined marble and green onyx base signed 'D H chiparus' and inscribed 'ETLING. PARIS' and inscribed on the underside 'MADE IN FRANCE' and 'DEUXIÈME ÉPREUVE'

Lot Essay

Antinea is also known as Odeon Dancer.

Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 25 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 97 and F. M. Ricci, ed. Isadora Duncan, Paris, 1979, pp. 140, 141 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, pp. 46-47 and A. Shayo, Chiparus: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 153, cat. no. 84