'Caberet Girl, a cold painted silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing a brief green costume and skullcap, on tip toe with arms extended and body inclined forward, the head turned to the right, on green onyx waisted socle, signed in the bronze (right hand fingers repaired) -- 39cm. high
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'Caberet Girl, a cold painted silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing a brief green costume and skullcap, on tip toe with arms extended and body inclined forward, the head turned to the right, on green onyx waisted socle, signed in the bronze (right hand fingers repaired) -- 39cm. high See illustration
Lot Essay
C.f.Brian Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures (Woodbridge 1978), p.282