Description

Art Deco Bronze by Demetre Chiparus ‘Thais – Oriental Dancer’

Impressive and exclusive Art Deco Bronze – est. 1925

Specifications

✓ Signed in the bronze D. H. (Demetre Haralamb) Chiparus

✓ Sizes: the statue is 42 cm long and 32 cm high

✓ Total size : 42 cm L x 35 cm H

✓ Octagonal black marble base size : 37cm L x 15 cm W

✓ Very heavy bronze statue 9,300 KG

✓ Dark grey (anthracite) patina finishing on octagonal marble base

✓ Very detailed handcrafted work i.e. clothing, face, hands, etc.

✓ Excellent condition – no wear and tear

Information on this ‘Thais’ statue

She is depicted posing on one knee with arms outstretched, dressed in pleated costume with draped sleeves, her figure-hugging bodice enhanced with raised ornamentation, her neck encrusted with layers of necklace raised off an elaborate marble octagonal base. The sculpture is handmade bronze molded using the ancient method of lost wax casting and stained with a dark grey (anthracite) patina.

Footnote: The inspiration for Thais came from an opera of the same name, which in turn was inspired by a book written by Anatoli France.

Information on Art Deco

Art Deco is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s and into the World War II era.

The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion, and jewelry, as well as the visual arts such as painting, graphic arts, and film.

The term “Art Deco” was first used widely in 1926, after an exhibition in Paris, ‘Les Années 25’ sub-titled Art Deco celebrating the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) that was the culmination of Style Moderne in Paris.

At its best, art deco represented elegance, glamour, functionality, and modernity. Art deco’s linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the flowing asymmetrical organic curves of its predecessor style Art Nouveau.

It embraced influences from many different styles of the early twentieth century, including neoclassical, constructivism, cubism, modernism, and futurism, and drew inspiration from ancient Egyptian and Aztec forms. Although many design movements have political or philosophical beginnings or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative.