Lot 67
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'HOOP GIRL' AND 'SONNY BOY', A PAIR OF COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURES**

Details
'HOOP GIRL' AND 'SONNY BOY', A PAIR OF COLD-PAINTED BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURES**
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY FERDINAND PREISS

the one--8in. (20.2cm.) high, including green onyx base signed 'F. Preiss', the other--8¼in. (21cm.) high, including green onyx base signed 'F. Preiss'

Lot Essay

Hoop Girl was marketed in the 1930s in London by the Phillips & MacConnal Gallery of Fine Arts at 16 Conduit Street where it was sold for 14 guineas.

Cf. B. Catley, Art Deco and Other Figures, Suffolk, England, 1978, p. 267 and V. Arwas, Art Deco Sculpture, London, 1992, p. 174