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Early 20th Century Art Deco Sculpture "Femme Allongée" by Demetre Chiparus
About the Item
A large and impressive early 20th Century silvered and gilt bronze figure of an Art Deco beauty on one knee knelt down as her other leg is extended. The lady dressed in a flowing dress with a long shawl over her shoulder. The bronze with very fine hand finished surface detail and excellent colour, raised on a marble base, signed D H Chiparus
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Height: 43 cm
Width: 74.5 cm
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Circa: 1925
Materials: Bronze & Marble
Book Ref Chiparus Master of Art Deco by A Shayo
SKU: 263
ABOUT
Chiparus – The Master of Art Deco
Romanian by birth, Chiparus worked entirely in Paris, first exhibiting in the Salon of 1914. He is best known for his figures or exotic dancer made of carved ivory and highly worked bronze. The subjects of these chryselephantine works were taken from popular personalities of the day, from contemporary theatre characters and the Orientalist zeitgeist in Paris in the interwar years, as exemplified by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russe.
Chiparus’s early figures, those on a relatively simple bases, were primarily cast by Etling, a Paris foundry the retailer of contemporary French decorative arts in the 1920s and 1930s. The later pieces were made by the Les Neveux de J Lehmann foundry which specialised in making the more elaborate marble and onyx plinths.
The Ballets Russes
The Ballets Russes was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed until his death in 1929. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to French dance and penetrated every facet of entertainment. The great Paris music halls, the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge and others put on spectacular shows inspired by the Ballet Russes.
Chiparus attended the music halls and purchased all the magazines which illustrated the dancers. His wife and occasional models posed for him as he varied some of the photographed illustrations, never wasting a good attitude, this gave Chiparus an inexhaustible supply of material and influence from which he derived his most flamboyant, exotic and dramatic statues, frozen in spectacular attitudes, tall and sensuous. Chiparus’s repertoire symbolises a brief golden era and the sculptures that survived stand graceful, self-confident and proudly decorative
- Dimensions:Height: 16.93 in (43 cm)Width: 29.34 in (74.5 cm)Depth: 8.67 in (22 cm)
- Style:Art Deco (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1925
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:London, GB
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