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Description: 1888-1968
CHIEN BOXER

measurements
height 21 1/4 in.; width 5 in.; depth 10 3/8 in.

alternate measurements
54 cm; 12.7 cm; 26.4 cm

inscribed Chana Orloff on the right side of the base and dated 1931, with the foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris

bronze with black patina

PROVENANCE

Sotheby's, New York, October 9, 1996, lot 131

LITERATURE

Felix Marcilhac, Chana Orloff, Paris, 1991, no. 171, illustration of another example, p.242

NOTE

This sculpture was cast circa 1931. Another edition cast by Susse Frères was completed after 1968.