Lot n° 35
Estimation :
5000 - 8000
EUR
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Result
: 5 000EUR
Léonard Agathon VAN WEYDEVELDT dit Agathon LEONARD (1841-192 - Lot 35
Léonard Agathon VAN WEYDEVELDT dit Agathon LEONARD (1841-1923) after
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Antique patina chryselephantine proof, partially gilded with colored enamel cabochons, the upper body carved from elephant ivory (Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana or Loxodonta cyclotis).
N° XVIII on the back of the base.
Longitudinal groove on right arm, thumb of right hand missing, shawl detached.
France, first quarter of the 20th century
Total height: 33 cm
Gross weight: 1816 g
Reference public exhibitions :
A copy of this model was presented at the Salon National des Beaux-arts in Paris in 1908.
Comparative bibliography on the subject:
- BÖSTGE Ingelore, Agathon Léonard, le geste Art Nouveau, Somogy éditions, Paris, 2003. Pp. 80 and 81.
- KJELLBERG Pierre, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2005. Version without scarf reproduced on page 458.
Comparative examples at public sale:
- Paris, Ader, December 3, 2015, n°15, for a similar example numbered XXXVI.Object composed in whole or in part of ivory of proboscidean elephantidae SPP (Elephas Maximus, Loxodonta Africana or Loxodonta Cyclotis) classified in Annex I/A Cites/EU. In accordance with current EU regulations (Regulation (EU) no. 2021/2280 of 16/12/21), the object will be delivered to the purchaser with its Intra-Community Certificate FR2507512084-K issued by the DREAL on 26/06/2025, bound in the expert report drawn up by Mr. Pierre Grignon Dumoulin, legal expert in objects of art made from materials derived from biodiversity, approved agent. Re-exportation outside the EU prohibited, except to state cultural institutions upon justification.
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