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

CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY DEMÊTRE CHIPARUS

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'RUSSIAN DANCERS', A PATINATED AND COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY GROUP**
Cast and Carved From a Model by Demêtre Chiparus
On elaborate marble base, the base inscribed DH. Chiparus
25in. (63.5cm.) high

拍品专文

cf. Bryan Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, 1978, p. 85; V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, 1992, p. 58 and Alberto Shayo, Chiparus, Master of Art Deco, 1993, p. 148, pl. 79 for illustrations of this model.

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 Russes production of Scheharazade, first performed in Paris in 1910.