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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
15-Nov-2006
Lot No.
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Description:
A Marble Bust of the Arab Sheik of Cairo After the 1866 original by Charles Cordier Finely modelled in white and grey marble, showing a bearded man wearing a turban and robes, stepped socle, 69 cm high. Note: The original is illustrated as item 86 in the catalogue raisonne Facing The Other: Charles Cordier 1827-1905, Ethnographic Sculptor, by Laure de Margerie and Edouard Papet, Paris 2004, published to accompany the retrospective exhibition of the same title at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris 2 February - 4 May 2004
Estimate:
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Price:
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Category:
Sculpture/Statuary: Busts/Heads