Live Auction 787520th Century Decorative Art & Design
DEMETRE CHIPARUS (1886-1947)
Lot 48

DEMETRE CHIPARUS (1886-1947)

YAMBO, CIRCA 1925

Closed26 October 2010

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GBP 49,250

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DEMETRE CHIPARUS (1886-1947)
YAMBO, CIRCA 1925
patinated and cold-painted bronze, carved ivory, on Belgian gold marble and terracotta marble plinth
23½ in. (60 cm.) high
plinth engraved D.H. Chiparus

Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errazuriz (1860-1951), rue de Paradis 29, Paris.
Gifted to Mr D. Jorge Efrain Nunez-Lagos Lorca from whom it was purchased by the present vendor.

Specialist note

Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errazuriz was a wealthy Bolivian heiress to a silver mining business in Chile, whose family moved to Paris in 1882.
From 1900 she became one of the leading arbiters of fashion and taste in Paris and befriended such diverse talents as Serge Diaghilev, Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau and Jean-Michel Frank.