'SPRING AWAKENING', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**

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'SPRING AWAKENING', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS

inscribed 'F. Preiss.'--14¼in. (36.2cm.) high, including octagonal green onyx base

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Also known as Spring Awakening, Invocation was marketed in the 1930s in London by the Phillips & MacConnal Gallery of Fine Arts at 16 Conduit Street where it was sold for 21 guineas.

Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 18 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 252 and F. M. Ricci, ed. Isadora Duncan, Paris, 1979, pp. 72, 73 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, pp. 184, 185