Live Auction 10636Christie's Interiors
A PATINATED AND COLD-PAINTED BRONZE
Lot 731

A PATINATED AND COLD-PAINTED BRONZE

'ANDROMEDA', CIRCA 1910

Closed28 January 2015

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GBP 2,750

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A PATINATED AND COLD-PAINTED BRONZE
'ANDROMEDA', CIRCA 1910
Modelled and cast as the partially draped Andromeda chained to a rock with waves lapping at her feet, on marble plinth with bronze lip, numbered on reverse 186, apparently unsigned
23 in. (58.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, is chained to a rock as a sacrifice to appease Cetus, a sea monster sent by Poseidon, and who is eventually rescued by Perseus.