Lot 53
53
'BREASTING THE TAPE', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A RUNNER**

Details
'BREASTING THE TAPE', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE OF A RUNNER**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS

--10¼in. (26cm.) high, including green onyx base signed 'F. Preiss.'

Lot Essay

Another example of this model is at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia. Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 97 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 272 and F. M. Ricci, ed. Isadora Duncan, Paris, 1979, pp. 70, 71 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 176