CAST FROM A MODEL BY VICTORIEN-ANTOINE BASTET, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A French bronze and parcel-gilt blued metal figural lamp entitled 'La Comete'
Cast from a model by Victorien-Antoine Bastet, Late 19th Century
Depicting a female nude diving through a moon crescent, signed to the back Bastet, on a shaped square marble plinth with title plaque to the front, electrified
Overall: 32 in. (82 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Discussing the present work in his book, L'Oeuvre de Victorien-Antoine Bastet, Statuaire, 1852-1905, Jules Belleudy quoted an extract published in la Revue du Midi (1902), commenting that: "La Comète est une gageure, un caprice, un jeu de difficultés. Une femme, aux cheveux flottants, séparés en guise de longues ailes, traverse l'espace et s'y élève. Elle est prodigieuse d'élan, de détente rapide. C'’est une vision reproduite avec une technique qui reste à deviner"

Another example of this model was sold Sotheby's London, 7 October 1994, lot 163 (£13,800).

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