A charming early 20th Century cold painted bronze study of a young Art Deco beauty sitting upon a stool delicately applying her lipstick, the bronze with excellent colour and detail, signed D H Chiparus and raised on a square variegated marble base.ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONHeight: 73 cmWidth: 24 cm Condition: Excellent Original ConditionCirca: 1925Materials: BronzeBook Ref Chiparus Master of Art Deco by Alberto ShayoPage No. 185SKU: 9294ABOUTChiparus � The Master of Art DecoRomanian by birth, Chiparus worked entirely in Paris, first exhibiting in the Salon of 1914. He is best known for his figures or exotic dancer made of carved ivory and highly worked bronze. The subjects of these chryselephantine works were taken from popular personalities of the day, from contemporary theatre characters and the Orientalist zeitgeist in Paris in the interwar years, as exemplified by Diaghilev�s Ballets Russe.Chiparus�s early figures, those on a relatively simple bases, were primarily cast by Etling, a Paris foundry the retailer of contemporary French decorative arts in the 1920s and 1930s. The later pieces were made by the Les Neveux de J Lehmann foundry which specialised in making the more elaborate marble and onyx plinthsThe Ballets RussesThe Ballets Russes was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed until his death in 1929. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to French dance and penetrated every facet of entertainment. The great Paris music halls, the Folies Berg�re, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rou...