Lot Essay
cf. Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture: Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, 1975, pp. 56 and 93; Bryan Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, 1978, p. 240 and Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, 1992, p. 156 for illustrations of this model.
Examples of The Aristocrats are known with the signatures of both Otto Poertzel and Ferdinand Preiss, a testament to the fact that these two artists worked closely on the models produced by Preiss-Kassler.
Examples of The Aristocrats are known with the signatures of both Otto Poertzel and Ferdinand Preiss, a testament to the fact that these two artists worked closely on the models produced by Preiss-Kassler.