Sale 1222
New York
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24 April 2003
Price realised
USD 7,170
Estimate
A French bronze figure of a Bacchante, emblematic of Autumn, on pedestal Cast from a model by Mathurin Moreau, Circa 1890 Inscribed moreau mathu scpt, on a later black marble pedestal The bronze: 34 in. (86.4 cm.) high; The pedestal: 24 in. (60.9 cm.) high (2)
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