Details
'The Flame Leaper', A Cold-Painted Bronze and Ivory Figure of an Acrobat**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS, GERMAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
inscribed 'F. Preiss' and stamped with the Preiss-Kassler foundry seal--14 1/8in. (36cm.) high, including stepped black Belgian marble base
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS, GERMAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
inscribed 'F. Preiss' and stamped with the Preiss-Kassler foundry seal--14 1/8in. (36cm.) high, including stepped black Belgian marble base
Provenance
Chrisite's, New York, December 15, 1984, lot 211
Christie's, New York, June 10, 1989, lot 26
Christie's, New York, June 10, 1989, lot 26
Literature
cf. B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, 1978, p. 277, F. M. Ricci ed., Isadora Duncan, 1979, p. 61 and V. Arwas, Art Deco, 1980, p. 140 for other examples of this model