Art Deco bronze figure by Demetre Chiparus – L’Eveil or Awakening

Art Deco bronze figure by Demetre Chiparus – L’Eveil or Awakening . A stunning Art Deco cold painted bronze study of a beautiful young woman awakening. This exquisite figure stands on tiptoes and with her arms raised up. Excellent cast and fine hand finished detail. A fine example of the exceptional skill and workmanship of the master sculptor Demetre Chiparus. The figure stands on a white marble and onyx base and is signed in the marble.
A similar figure is shown in A. Shayo, ‘Chiparus Master of Art Deco’, Abbeville Press, 1999, p.106. A beautiful piece and a superb example of Art Deco sculpture

History

Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947)
Born in Romania, Dimitri Chiparus emmigrated to Paris, where he studied under Antonin Mercier and Jean Boucher. He began to exhibit small sculptures, his very first showing at the Salon of the Societe des Artistes Francais in 1914 leading to an Honouable Mention.

Louis Comfort Tiffany was also awarded an Honourable Mention that same year. Chiparus was an extremely prolific artist, producing a wide variety of mainly small-scale figures. These were executed generally either all in bronze or in bronze and ivory. As with Preiss, Lorenzl and Colinet the other great sculptors from this period, Chiparus was inspired by the female form and the new found freedom that women enjoyed, which he executed beautifully both in his bronze and ceramic designs.

Some designs were executed in both media, and a few occasionally in more than one size. A few figures were executed in spelter and ivorene though the white metal was cold painted in the same way as bronze, while the ivorene, which was cast, was painted in bright colours.

Most of his figures were edited by the firm of Edmond Etling, though he executed a number of models for the firm of Arthur Goldscheider. Both of course had their own bronze foundries. He exhibited a bronze edited by Goldscheider at the 1928 Salon, La Danseuse Ta-Keo.

His last recorded exhibit at the Salon was in 1939. Though his feminine figures and dancers made his reputation, he also produced a vast array of sculptures of children. He designed a number of colourful ceramic figures for Etling.

Chiparus also executed a considerable number of religious figures. A few of his figures were edited by Editions Reveyrolis and some by Les Neveux de J Lehmann. Some of his bronzes were cast at the Marcel Guillemard foundry in Paris.

He was awarded a prize at the Salon des Beaux Arts, in which several chryselphantine (bronze and ivory) sculptors exhibited

Date French c 1925

Condition . Excellent original condition. Light wear to the Patina and a chip to the rear of the marble base

Dimensions Height bronze only 41 cm bronze and base 46cm width 23cm

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