Lot n° 81
Estimation :
400 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 1 600EUR
FRÉDÉRIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI (1834-1904)
BUST... - Lot 81 - Lucien Paris
FRÉDÉRIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI (1834-1904)
BUST OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY,
UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, PARIS 1878
Iron and brass
Bearing the engraved inscription "Souvenir de l'Exposition 1878,
statue of Liberty, Bartholdi, copyright 31 august 1876".
Mark of the founder Avoiron Cie, Paris.
On a square black granite base. 13.7 x 9 x 9 cm.
The head of "Liberty Enlightening the World", known as the "Statue of Liberty",
both a work of art and a technical feat, conceived by the French sculptor
sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834 -1904) was revealed to the public in the
in the gardens of the Champ de Mars on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition
in Paris in 1878. Visitors could enter the head up to the tiara by means of a
by means of a staircase of 43 meters.
Busts like this one were sold to the public by Bartholdi
by Bartholdi in order to finance the construction site which was held in Paris
in Paris and Levallois-Perret.
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