Lot 408
  • 408

Evgeny Lanceray (1848-1886), A Russian Bronze: The Kirghiz Falconer

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • inscribed with signature and with Chopin foundry marks
  • Height 20 1/2 in.
  • 52 cm
A Kirghiz horseman, dressed for winter, is poised to release his falcon; a dead fox, proof of the falcon's success and skill, is strapped to the saddle

Condition

good detail and patina
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Catalogue Note

On this design, see N.R. Levinson and L.N. Goncharova, Russkaia khudozhestvennaia bronza, Moscow, 1958, p. 80; I.M. Shmidt, Russkaia skulptura vtoroi poloviny XIX-nachala XX veka, Moscow, 1989, pp. 42, 44-45; and G.W. Sudbury, Evgueni Alexandrovitch Lanceray, 1848-1886, Lausanne, 2006, pp. 74-75, 125-126.