Lot 405: Antokol'skii, Mark (1842-1902)

Antokol'skii, Mark (1842-1902)
Mephistopheles
signed in Cyrillic 'Antokol'skij' on the back of the base and inscribed with foundry mark 'fonte procédé cire perdue Thiebaut Frères Paris' on the side of the base
bronze with brown/green patina
67¾ in. (171 cm.) high

Ya. Bruk and L. Yovlelva, Gosudarstvennaya Tretyakovskaya Galereya, Katalog Sobraniya, Skulptura XVIII-XIX Vekov, vol. I, Moscow, 2000, pp. 92, 97, 101-102, no. 23, marble example illustrated.
G. Presnov, L. Fadeeva, et al., Gosudarstvennyi Russkii Muzei, Skulptura XVIII-nachalo XX Veka, Katalog, Leningrad, 1988, pp. 24-25, no. 46, marble example illustrated.
E.V. Kuznetsova, M.M. Antokol'skii, Zhizn' i Tvorchestvo, Moscow, 1989, pp. 139-153.
V.V. Stasov, ed., Mark Matveievich Antokol'skii, Ego zhizn', tvoreniya, pis'ma i stat'i, St Petersburg, 1905.

A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Sir James Goldsmith.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Antokol'skii, Mark (1842-1902)
Mephistopheles
signed in Cyrillic 'Antokol'skij' on the back of the base and inscribed with foundry mark 'fonte procédé cire perdue Thiebaut Frères Paris' on the side of the base
bronze with brown/green patina
67¾ in. (171 cm.) high