SERGE YOURIEVITCH (1876-1969): A BRONZE SCULPTURE OF ‘LA DANSEUSE NATTOVA’
Cast with 'S. YOURIEVITCH SCULP./LA DANSEUSE NATTOVA' to the rectangular base, 74cm high
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£2,000 - £4,000
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Hammer price:
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£2,800 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Serge Yourievitch was born in Paris to a noble Russian/Belarusian family. He once served as a Lord-in-Waiting to Tsar Nicholas II before training as a sculptor under Auguste Rodin. Yourievitch was famous predominantly for bronze garden statuary and portraits of eminent individuals including Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Hardy. In the 1950's Yourievitch became a professor at the Guildford School of Art.
