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Artist or Maker: A CEMENT CAST OF A TORSO OF A NAKED WOMAN, DESIGNED 1912

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Description: CHANA ORLOFF (1888-1969)
A Cement Cast of a Torso of a Naked Woman, designed 1912
48 3/8 in. (123 cm.) high
signed and dated Chana Orloff 1918

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Provenance: Romaine Brooks, Paris.
With Anne-Sophie Duval, Paris, acquired from the estate of Romaine Brooks.
Sotheby's, Paris, Collection Karl Lagerfeld , 15 May 2003, lot 185.

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Notes: cf. F. Marcilhac, Chana Orloff catalogue raisonée de l'oeuvre sculpté , Paris, 1991, p. 17 for another cast in cement (possibly the present lot), p. 203, no. 5 for a bronze cast.

H. Gamzu (ed.) et al., Chana Orloff , Brescia, 1980, p. 33, pl. 5 for another cast of this sculpture.