Highlights from 19th & 20th Century Sculpture Auction

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  Jean Baptiste Clèsinger, Cléopâtre Mourante (The Dying Cleopatara).
  Estimate £100,000 –150,000

  Directly inspired by the Parthenon Pedimental sculptures, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:this sculpture was part of an emerging craze for Egyptology in the mid-19th century.
  
  

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  Satyr with the Infant Dionysus, Italian, Circa 1900 (After the Antique).
  Estimate £70,000-100,000

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This sculpture is based on an ancient model in the national archaeological museum in Naples; it is a well-executed piece with very good quality of carving in excellent condition.
  
  

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  Ambrogio Borghi, Chioma di Berenice (Berenice’s Tresses).
  Estimate £70,000 –100,000

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This is a key iconic masterpiece of Italian 19th-century sculpture. It was a seminal model for the artist and is both sumptuous and erotic.
  
  

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  Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, La Juive D’Alger (The Jewess of Algiers).
  Estimate £60,000 –80,000

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This bust stands out from the decorative Orientalist oeuvre as an unusually fine study of physiognomy and culture. It is a technical masterpiece, combining enamel, bronze, silvering and marble carving. 
  
  

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  Giovanni Battista Lombardi, Najade O Ninfa (Naiad or Nymph).
  £60,000 –80,000

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This work merges classical simplicity with Romantic sentiment; it shows an idealized beauty in the act of stepping into water.
  
  

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  Pasquale Romanelli, Odalisque (Sulamitide).
  Estimate £40,000 –60,000

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This is an important work by a highly prized neoclassical sculptor. It represents odalisque, a figure of orientalist fantasy.
  
  

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  Luca Madrassi, Clytie Turning into a Sunflower.
  Estimate £30,000 –£50,000

  168开奖官方开奖网站查询:This work shows the Nymph Clytie in the act of metamorphosis, having been mourning the death of her lover, the sun god Helios.
  
  

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  Louis-Ernest Barrias, La Nature se Dévoilant Devant la Science (Nature Revealing Herself to Science).
  Estimate £30,000 –50,000

  Part of a late 19th-century fashion for chryselephantine sculptures and relates itself to the breakneck technological progress taking place at the time.
  
  

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  Vittorio Caradossi, Nymph and Chimera.
  Estimate £35,000 –50,000

  Based on renaissance and classical precedent, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:this work shows a scene from ancient mythology.
  
  

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  Cecil de Blaquiere Howard, Baigneuse (Bather), 1920.
  Estimate £15,000—25,000

  This Bather is part of an important collection of works from Cecil Howard’s studio, which has come from his descendants. This particular work is shows his more classicising aesthetic, and is based on an ancient Roman relief of dancing Maenads.
  
  

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