Large Art Deco Cubist Statue (height: 1.43 M)

Important Art Deco sculpture (height 1 m 43) in gilded ceramic with cracked enamels depicting an elegant woman with very pure cubist lines dressed in antique drapery resting on a sculpted stone pedestal with a triangular pattern structured in steps and half faceted -fluted colonnades. This statue matches a model listed on the cover photo of the catalog "L'Esprit Art Déco" by Dan Klein, Nancy A. McClelland and Malcolm Haslam published by Éditions Flammarion, this literary reference corresponds to a lot from the Private Collection of Felix Marcilhac sold by Sotheby's on March 11, 2014 representing a pair of panels decorated with women in wood carved in bas-relief, our model appears on the right panel (see document) moreover the same pair of statue has been the subject of an attribution to the sculptor Gustave Miklos during a session in Drouot by the Le Floch auction house. Other references are discussed below. Good general condition, it measures 1.43 m high x 27 cm wide / statue excluding base: 1.03 m high. Weight of the set 40 kg LITERATURE: -Félix Marcilhac, Connaisseur's Choice, The Staste, n. 1, September-October 1990, reproduced p. 67 -Bevis Hillier, The World of Art Deco, exhibition catalog, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1971, reproduced p. 81, described on p. 80, n. 238 -Knowledge of the Arts, n. 247, September 1972, detail reproduced on the cover -Paul Maenz, Art Deco 1920-1940, ed. M. Dumont Schauberg, Cologne, 1974, back cover -Yvonne Brunhammer, Les Grands Styles - Le Style 1925, ed. Baschet et Cie, Paris, 1975, reproduced p. 70 -Philippe Jullian, The Collectors: Felix Marcilhac in Paris, Architectural Digest, July-August 1977, reproduced p. 59 -Philippe Jullian, I collezionisti: Felix Marcilhac a Parigi, Architectural Digest Italy, March 1982, reproduced p. 105