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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 15, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Important 20th Century Design | 23 | $****** - ****** | Les Girls |
sculpture
32.7 x 42.5 x 12.1 cm (12.87 x 16.73 x 4.76 in)
cold-painted, parcel-gilt and silvered bronze, carved and tinted ivory on a portor marble base
base engraved D.H. Chiparus, one foot impressed 3 and with foundry tag impressed LN/Paris/JL
Private Collection, New York, circa 1930s
Private Collection, Palm Beach, FL, acquired from the above circa 1960
Thence by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture Chryselephantine Statuettes of the Twenties and Thirties, London, 1975, p. 76 (for the single-figure model); Bryan Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1978, p. 103 (for the five-figure model); Victor Arwas, Art Deco, London, 1980, p. 155 (for the single-figure model); Victor Arwas, Art Deco, London, 1992, p. 155 (for the single-figure model); Victor Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, front cover and p. 60 (for the five-figure model); Alberto Shayo, Chiparus: Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 61 (for the five-figure model in Etling's period catalogue sheet) and pp. 163-165, pls. 94-96 (for the three variants of the model); Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood, eds., Art Deco 1910-1939, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2003, p. 55 (for the five-figure model); Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Complete, London, 2009, p. 106 (for the five-figure model)
