Demetre Chiparus Girl with Mirror Femme au Miroir. A superb Art Deco patinated and cold painted bronze study of a beautiful young woman admiring herself in a hand mirror. Excellent and finished detail and a superb cast. A fine example of the exceptional skill and workmanship of the master sculptor Demetre Chiparus. The figure stands on a tapered white marble base and is signed in the marble.
A similar figure is shown in A. Shayo, ''Chiparus Master of Art Deco'', Abbeville Press, 1999, p.102 where a bronze and ivory version is shown. A beautiful piece. French c 1925. Excellent original condition
Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947)
Born in Romania, Dimitri Chiparus emmigrated to Paris, where he studied under Antonin Mercier and Jean Boucher. He began to exhibit small sculptures, his very first showing at the Salon of the Societe des Artistes Francais in 1914 leading to an Honouable Mention.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was also awarded an Honourable Mention that same year. Chiparus was
...an extremely prolific artist, producing a wide variety of mainly small-scale figures. These were executed generally either all in bronze or in bronze and ivory. As with Preiss, Lorenzl and Colinet the other great sculptors from this period, Chiparus was inspired by the female form and the new found freedom that women enjoyed, which he executed beautifully both in his bronze and ceramic designs.
Some designs were executed in both media, and a few occasionally in more than one size. A few figures were executed in spelter and ivorene though the white metal was cold painted in the same way as bronze, while the ivorene, which was cast, was painted in bright colours.
Most of his figures were edited by the firm of Edmond Etling, though he executed a number of models for the firm of Arthur Goldscheider. Both of course had their own bronze foundries. He exhibited a bronze edited by Goldscheider at the 1928 Salon, La Danseuse Ta-Keo.
His last recorded exhibit at the Salon was in 1939. Though his feminine figures and dancers made his reputation, he also produced a vast array of sculptures of children. He designed a number of colourful ceramic figures for Etling.
Chiparus also executed a considerable number of religious figures. A few of his figures were edited by Editions Reveyrolis and some by Les Neveux de J Lehmann. Some of his bronzes were cast at the Marcel Guillemard foundry in Paris.
He was awarded a prize at the Salon des Beaux Arts, in which several chryselphantine (bronze and ivory) sculptors exhibited
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All my item prices include UK ShippingInternal Reference: 2603
Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA959147
Dateline of this antique is 1920
Height is 43cm (16.9inches)Width is 0cm (0.0inches)Depth is 0cm (0.0inches)
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