'RUSSIAN DANCERS', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY GROUP**

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'RUSSIAN DANCERS', A COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY GROUP**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY DEMÊTRE CHIPARUS, FRENCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

----- 24in. (61cm.) high, 16in. (41cm.) long, including elaborate marble base signed 'D H Chiparus' and inscribed 'ETLING. PARIS'

Lot Essay

These dancers were also marketed as a pair of single figures, each on an elaborate arched base. The two dancers have been identified as Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubenstein dancing in the Ballets Russe production of Scheharazade, first performed in Paris in 1910.

cf. B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, 1978, p. 85. and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 58, illus. and A. Shayo, Chiparus: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 148, cat. no. 79, illus. for other examples