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A BRONZE GROUP OF A HERD OF KIRGHIZ HORSES BEFORE DEPARTURE
Lot 363 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION PART I

A BRONZE GROUP OF A HERD OF KIRGHIZ HORSES BEFORE DEPARTURE

CAST BY SHTANGE AFTER THE MODEL BY EVGENII LANCERAY, 1878

Closed3 June 2013

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A BRONZE GROUP OF A HERD OF KIRGHIZ HORSES BEFORE DEPARTURE
CAST BY SHTANGE AFTER THE MODEL BY EVGENII LANCERAY, 1878
On a naturalistic oval base, realistically cast as a Kabardin raising his hand with a horsewhip with a barefoot boy in the saddle in front of him, signed and dated on base in Cyrillic 'E. LANCERAY 1878' and with the Cyrillic foundry mark 'N. SHTANGE.'
23 in. (58.4 cm.) wide

Specialist note

For the original wax model, see L.A. Dementieva, Album of Models by the Sculptor Eugene Lanceray, pp. 182-183, 313, no. 86.
For further discussion of this model, see G. Sudbury, et al., Evgueni Alexandrovich Lanceray: le sculpteur russe du cheval, Paris, 2006, pp. 138-139.