Lot Essay
A large scale version of this work sold in these rooms, Christie's London, 20th Century Decorative Art & Design, 1 May 2013, lot 115.
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'LE VAMPIRE' / 'LA CHAUVE-SOURIS', A RARE SYMBOLIST FIGURE, CIRCA 1903
Details
AGATHON LÉONARD (1841-1923)
'LE VAMPIRE' / 'LA CHAUVE-SOURIS', A RARE SYMBOLIST FIGURE, CIRCA 1903
patinated bronze, the standing semi-nude figure with arms raised aloft before elevated bat wings
13.1/4 in. (33.5 cm.) high
base signed A. Léonard, and stamped 9CA
'LE VAMPIRE' / 'LA CHAUVE-SOURIS', A RARE SYMBOLIST FIGURE, CIRCA 1903
patinated bronze, the standing semi-nude figure with arms raised aloft before elevated bat wings
13.1/4 in. (33.5 cm.) high
base signed A. Léonard, and stamped 9CA
Literature
Similar examples illustrated:
M. Rheims, La Sculpture au XIXeme Siècle, Paris, 1972, fig. 12, p. 133;
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpiece from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, fig. 87, p. 176;
V. Arwas, Art Nouveau, the French Aesthetic, London, 2002, p. 246;
Musée d'Art et d' Industrie André Diligent, Agathon Léonard, Le Geste Art Nouveau, exh. cat., 11 March - 9 June 2009, Roubaix, pp. 78-79.
M. Rheims, La Sculpture au XIXeme Siècle, Paris, 1972, fig. 12, p. 133;
A. Duncan, Fin de Siècle Masterpiece from the Silverman Collection, New York, 1989, fig. 87, p. 176;
V. Arwas, Art Nouveau, the French Aesthetic, London, 2002, p. 246;
Musée d'Art et d' Industrie André Diligent, Agathon Léonard, Le Geste Art Nouveau, exh. cat., 11 March - 9 June 2009, Roubaix, pp. 78-79.
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