"Paul Philippe (1870-1930), Chryselephantine Sculpture"
Russian Dancer" Chryselephantine sculpture Paul Philippe (1870-1930), an important Art Nouveau and Art Deco sculptor, studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1900, he moved to Paris, where he soon lived at Charcoal , an artists' colony at the foot of Montmartre. ''Great Russian Dancer'', large chryselephantine figure of a dancer with outstretched arms, gilded bronze with ivory head, arms and shoulders. On an onyx pedestal. h .62cm