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A BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB ON A CAMEL
Lot 380

A BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB ON A CAMEL

CAST BY WOERFFEL AFTER THE MODEL BY PETR SAMONOV, CIRCA 1890

Closed4 June 2018

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GBP 35,000

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A BRONZE GROUP OF AN ARAB ON A CAMEL
CAST BY WOERFFEL AFTER THE MODEL BY PETR SAMONOV, CIRCA 1890
On a naturalistic oval base, realistically cast as an Arab smoking a pipe and riding a camel, signed on base in Cyrillic 'Lep. Samonov.' and stamped with Cyrillic foundry mark 'Zav. C.F. Woerffel. S.P.B.'

18½ in. (47 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Petr Samonov (b. 1863), mostly famous for his sculptures dedicated to the Russian Army, was born into a military family. Не did not have a formal fine art education, however, he became interested in sculpture and started working with bronze from 1884. Although Samonov was not a professionally trained artist, his model won the competition for the monument depicting General Mikhail Skobelev in 1910.

A comparable model of an Arab on a Camel was sold Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 9 June 2017, lot 1488.