Art Deco sculptures by Demetre Chiparus (1888 - 1947)
Born in Romania and came to Paris when he was 20 years old where he studied under Mercié and Boucher and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1914 to 1928. He produced many statuettes and groups of small children and dancing girls, their features carved and set into the bronze, gilded and enamelled. Chiparus also developed the process of combining bronze and ivory to create wonderful chryselephantine sculpture. Many of his figures were of exotic dancers inspired by contemporary trends in popular entertainment, such as Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which gave his works its particular Art Deco flavour. Chiparus designed the most stylised and extravagant bases on which to present his sculptures, the bases made from an assortment of marbles and onyx. Most of his sculpture were cast at Etling or Lehmann foundries.
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