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.

Height:                                      73 cm

Width:                                       24 cm                                      

Condition:                              Excellent Original Condition

Circa:                                        1925

Chiparus – The Master of Art Deco

Romanian 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.