'Torch Dancer', a bronze and ivory Figure, cast and carved from a model by F. Preiss, the dancing girl poised standing on one leg, her head thrown back and arms outstretched holding two flaming torches, wearing bronze cold painted pantaloons with floral decorations, mounted on a faceted marble green plinth, signed in the maquette F. Preiss, c.1980

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'Torch Dancer', a bronze and ivory Figure, cast and carved from a model by F. Preiss, the dancing girl poised standing on one leg, her head thrown back and arms outstretched holding two flaming torches, wearing bronze cold painted pantaloons with floral decorations, mounted on a faceted marble green plinth, signed in the maquette F. Preiss, c.1980
38.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Bryan Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Woodbridge 1978, p.281

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