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EMANUELE ORDONO DE ROSALES (9TH MARCHESE DI CASTELLEONE, 1873-1919): DANCER a dark brown patinated bronze figure, circa 1906, the female nude modelled with one arm stretched to her raised leg, the other arm stretched out behind her, signed to the table of the stepped circular base 'E.O. Rosales / 8' and inscribed to side 'Copywright by E.O. Rosales 1906', set on its green mottled marble cylindrical pillar with stepped square base, figure 27cm high, 49cm overall Emanuele Ordoño de Rosales, sometimes known as Manolo, came from a noble Milanese family. Having spent his formative training in Paris under the sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias, he traveled widely, including to America. By the early 20th century he became known for his figures of dancers and nudes, producing a bronze head of his friend Michel Fokine (see an example sold Bonham's, London, 31 May 2007, lot 61) and a figure of Nijinsky as Harlequin in the Ballets Russes production of 'Carnaval' (See De Young/Legion of Honour Museum, San Francisco, No.1959.76). See another of this model held by the Le musée national d'Art moderne (MNAM), Pompidou Centre, Paris, No.LUX.0.87 S; and one sold Sotheby's, London, 12 June 2006, lot 267.
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EMANUELE ORDONO DE ROSALES (9TH MARCHESE DI CASTELLEONE, 1873-1919): DANCER a dark brown patinated bronze figure, circa 1906, the female nude modelled with one arm stretched to her raised leg, the other arm stretched out behind her, signed to the table of the stepped circular base 'E.O. Rosales / 8' and inscribed to side 'Copywright by E.O. Rosales 1906', set on its green mottled marble cylindrical pillar with stepped square base, figure 27cm high, 49cm overall Emanuele Ordoño de Rosales, sometimes known as Manolo, came from a noble Milanese family. Having spent his formative training in Paris under the sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias, he traveled widely, including to America. By the early 20th century he became known for his figures of dancers and nudes, producing a bronze head of his friend Michel Fokine (see an example sold Bonham's, London, 31 May 2007, lot 61) and a figure of Nijinsky as Harlequin in the Ballets Russes production of 'Carnaval' (See De Young/Legion of Honour Museum, San Francisco, No.1959.76). See another of this model held by the Le musée national d'Art moderne (MNAM), Pompidou Centre, Paris, No.LUX.0.87 S; and one sold Sotheby's, London, 12 June 2006, lot 267.
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