AUCTION # 30: RUSSIAN APPLIED AND DECORATIVE ART

A RUSSIAN BRONZE OF A COSSACK'S FAREWELL, GRACHEV

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Start price: $3,500

Estimated price: $4,500 - $5,500

Buyer's premium:

Late 19th-century Russian bronze figurine, cast by Woerffel, after the model by Vassili Yacovlevitch Grachev (Russian, 1831 – 1905). Realistically cast as a cossack embracing his sweetheart, as they stand beside his horse, signed on the base in Cyrillic ‘Mod.[elled] [by] Grachev’, also with foundry mark ‘Fabr. C.F. Woerffel / St Petersbourg’.

Dimensions: L: 13 in., (33 cm.)

Condition: Overall condition good. Light wear and minor scratches.