Ferdinand Preiss, female mandolin player c. 1925,... Lot 2860

Ferdinand Preiss, female mandolin player c. 1925, unsigned, bronze polychrome painted in cold colors, ivory finely carved, depicting a standing young lady with bobbed head and top hat, wearing an elegant revue costume, on original multi-piece assembled base of brown marble, green onyx and black slate, ivory with slight drying cracks, slight signs of age, h bronze 39 cm, h overall 59 cm. Enclosed: EC certificate with expert opinion on proof of age and copy from the book Shayo, Ferdinand Preiss, Woodbridge 2005, p. 159, p. 49. Source: Catley, Bryan; Art Deco and other figures, Woodbridge 2003, p. 302. Artist info: Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss (1882 Erbach to 1943 Berlin) bedeut. dt. Bildhauer u. Student of Philipp Willmann, study trips to Milan, Rome and Paris, active in Berlin, where he founded his own company Preiss & Kassler, whose collection initially included small sculptures made of ivory, including children's statuettes and sculptures, from 1910 the first combination sculptures made of bronze with ivory. Source: German Ivory Museum Erbach, From Art Nouveau to Art Deco, p. 121, Preiss, Ferdinand. Info: This object can only be shipped with a forwarding agency.