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'ATHENA' A GILT BRONZE, COLD-PAINTED AND IVORY FIGURE BY MARCEL BOURAINE
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'ATHENA' A GILT BRONZE, COLD-PAINTED AND IVORY FIGURE BY MARCEL BOURAINE

CIRCA 1920

Fermé28 September 2010

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GBP 5,250

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'ATHENA' A GILT BRONZE, COLD-PAINTED AND IVORY FIGURE BY MARCEL BOURAINE
CIRCA 1920
modelled as a naked woman, dancing on a lion skin, holding an ivory sword and a cold-painted silver shield with central mask, signed in the maquette M. Bouraine, raised on stepped marble base
18¼ in. (46.3 cm.) high

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This figure represents Athena, on the shield is the head of Medusa, killed by Perseus and offered to Athena.