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Lot 55
DEMETRE CHIPARUS (1886-1947)
'RUSSIAN DANCERS', CIRCA 1925
Closed1 May 2013
Price Realised
GBP 85,875
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Specialist note
Similar example illustrated:
B. Catley, Art Deco and other Figures, Suffolk, 1978, p. 85
V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 58;
A. Shayo, Chiparus, Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 148, fig. 79.
Demetre Chiparus was inspired by acclaimed dancers Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein who performed in Sergei Diaghilev's Scheherazade in Paris, in 1910. This Ballet Russes production was based on a Rimsky-Korsakov poem about the Arabian Nights and narrated the tragic love affair of a sultana and her slave. Chiparus references here the avant-garde costume designs of Leon Bakst which Diaghilev commissioned.
B. Catley, Art Deco and other Figures, Suffolk, 1978, p. 85
V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 58;
A. Shayo, Chiparus, Master of Art Deco, New York, 1993, p. 148, fig. 79.
Demetre Chiparus was inspired by acclaimed dancers Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein who performed in Sergei Diaghilev's Scheherazade in Paris, in 1910. This Ballet Russes production was based on a Rimsky-Korsakov poem about the Arabian Nights and narrated the tragic love affair of a sultana and her slave. Chiparus references here the avant-garde costume designs of Leon Bakst which Diaghilev commissioned.