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Art Nouveau lamp slave girl under palm tree
Art Nouveau lamp slave girl under palm tree by Emmanuel Villanis, removable skirt, erotic.
Art metal, cold painted patina. France 1900.
H. 82 cm.
A slave girl sitting under a palm tree, her hands chained behind her back.
She is wearing earrings, a red turban and a red removable skirt.
This is a unique lamp.
Illustrations of this model as a sculpture can be found:
on page 23 of
Emmanuel Villanis, Josje Hortulanus- de Mik. (skirt missing)
on page 643 of
Les bronzes de XIXe siècle, Pierre Kjellberg, Les éditions des amateurs.
and on page 606 of
Bronzes, sculptors and founders, H. Berman, Abage.
A description of this model can be found in
Emmanuel Villanis, un sculpteur art nouveau, Pascal Launay, Thélès.
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