Live Auction 2499DeLorenzo: Thirty Years, Evening Sale
EDOUARD MARCEL SANDOZ (1881-1971)
Lot 1

EDOUARD MARCEL SANDOZ (1881-1971)

A PATINATED BRONZE COBRA 'SERPENT À LUNETTES', CIRCA 1927

Closed14 December 2010

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EDOUARD MARCEL SANDOZ (1881-1971)
A Patinated Bronze Cobra 'Serpent à Lunettes', circa 1927
13 in. (33 cm.) high, 9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter

Hélène Rochas.
Christie's, Monaco, Collection Hélène Rochas, 9 December 1990, lot 6.
Christie's, Paris, Collection Claude et Simone Dray, 8 June 2006, lot 202.

Specialist note

cf. F. Marcilhac, Sandoz. Sculpteur Figuriste et Animalier. Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Sculpté, Paris, 1993, re. no. 1201 Rep2/1927-1, p. 457 for another cobra of this model.
Mobilier et Décoration, April 1927, p. 126.