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

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

inscribed 'F. PREISS.'--16¾in. (42.5cm.) high, including Belgian marble and green onyx base

Lot Essay

Charleston Dancer, also known as Red Dancer, was marketed in the 1930s in London by the Phillips & MacConnal Gallery of Fine Arts at 16 Conduit Street where it was sold for 18 guineas.

Cf. V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, New York, 1975, p. 92 and B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p 282 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 177