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Lost Wax Bronze Sculpture Antelope By Christa Winsloe-hatvany / Susse Frères
CHRISTA WINSLOE HATVANY (1888-1944)
Antelope
Lost wax bronze casting, with black patina.
Circa 1930.
Signed on the base "Christa-Winsloe Hatvany"
Mark and stamp of the foundry "Susse Frères Paris" and marked "cire perdue".
Height: 38 cm x W 40 x D 16 cm
Christa Winsloe-Hatvany (1884-1944): Sculptor and writer against family wishes, but also against all the conventions of the time, the German artist married the Hungarian Baron Lajos Hatvany from whom she divorced, assuming her homosexuality in a freer Vienna of the 1920s. Specializing in animal art, the artist also lived in the United States as well as in France. During the war, she joined the resistance and was shot dead with her partner, the Swiss writer Simone Gentet, in June 1944, in mysterious circumstances.
Antelope
Lost wax bronze casting, with black patina.
Circa 1930.
Signed on the base "Christa-Winsloe Hatvany"
Mark and stamp of the foundry "Susse Frères Paris" and marked "cire perdue".
Height: 38 cm x W 40 x D 16 cm
Christa Winsloe-Hatvany (1884-1944): Sculptor and writer against family wishes, but also against all the conventions of the time, the German artist married the Hungarian Baron Lajos Hatvany from whom she divorced, assuming her homosexuality in a freer Vienna of the 1920s. Specializing in animal art, the artist also lived in the United States as well as in France. During the war, she joined the resistance and was shot dead with her partner, the Swiss writer Simone Gentet, in June 1944, in mysterious circumstances.
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