Chiparus & the Ballets Russes: Twelve Masterworks from an Important Private Collection

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Lot 6
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Demeter Chiparus

Estimate
140,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Demeter Chiparus
  • Yambo

  • base engraved D. H. Chiparus and with partial mark [ETLIN]G PARIS

  • cold-painted, parcel-gilt and silvered bronze; carved and tinted ivory; on a Portor marble and onyx base
  • 24 x 13 x 5 7/8 in. (61 x 33 x 14.9 cm)
  • edited by Etling, Paris

Provenance

Private Midwestern Collection
Christie's New York, June 11, 1994, lot 23

Exhibited

A Private Collection of Art Deco Chryselephantine Sculpture, Sotheby’s, New York, July 17-August 25, 1995

Literature

Bryan Catley, Art Deco and other Figures, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1978, p. 99
Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 72
Alberto Shayo, Chiparus:  Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 48 (for the plasteline model)

Catalogue Note

Chiparus' Yambo recalls the poses, costumes and props early modern dancers exploited in their Eastern-inspired dances.  A photograph of Lisa Kresse from the early 1920s shows the German actress and dancer in a costume similar to the one Chiparus depicts, but with her fire props fully deployed for the photo.