JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 14 March 2023 - 10:00 AM start
An Art Deco Demetre Chiparus figurine 'The Squall’,
Realised: $4,000 plus premium
Lot Details
circa 1925, gilt and patinated-bronze with ivory face, modelled as a young woman wearing a cloche hat, fur-trimmed coat and muff, leaning over as a gust of wind catches her. On an onyx plinth of diamond form. Signed. Chiparus to the skirt rim. H.190mm. Note: Please see Alberto Shayo, Chiparus, Master of Art Deco, Abbeville Press Publishers, 1999, plate 3, page 71 for a similar larger example
