'LOIE FULLER' A PATINATED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE, C.1900

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'LOIE FULLER' A PATINATED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE, C.1900
cast and carved to suggest the movement created by the dancer with her voluminus silk skirts that clung to her body, raised on a bronze base embellished with floral motifs, on marble plinth,
13 7/8in. (35.4cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Loie Fuller was an American dancer who moved to Paris in 1892 and captivated Parisian audiences with her innovative use of lighting, silk drapes and dance. The symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme described her dancing as "..the dizziness of the soul made visible by an artifice."

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