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A BRONZE GROUP 'AFTER A BATTLE'
Lot 362 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION PART I

A BRONZE GROUP 'AFTER A BATTLE'

CAST BY CHOPIN AFTER THE MODEL BY EVGENII LANCERAY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed3 June 2013

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GBP 17,500

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A BRONZE GROUP 'AFTER A BATTLE'
CAST BY CHOPIN AFTER THE MODEL BY EVGENII LANCERAY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
On an oval naturalistic base, realistically cast as a Zaporozhye Cossack sitting on horseback, signed on base in Cyrillic 'MODELLED [BY] E. LANCERAY.' and with Cyrillic foundry mark 'F. CHOPIN' and Finance Ministry stamp
26¼ in. (66.7 cm.) high

Specialist note

For the original wax model, see L.A. Dementieva, Album of Models by the Sculptor Eugene Lanceray, pp. 79-81, 317, no. 24.
For further discussion of this model, see G. Sudbury, et al., Evgueni Alexandrovich Lanceray: le sculpteur russe du cheval, Paris, 2006, pp. 110-111.