Boris FRÖDMAN-CLUZEL (1878-1959) (attributed to) Carlotta Zambelli (1875-1962) in La Fête chez Thérèse Model created in 1910; probably cast by A.A. Hébrard Bronze statuette with brown patina H. 18.5 cm, on a marble base H. 8 cm (terrace missing, traces of oxidation) Provenance : Estate sale Jacques Chazot, lot 66, Hôtel Drouot - Mes Delavenne et Lafarge (October 9, 1997) Enclosed: an exhibition card by Nadar featuring Carlotta Zambelli Related work: Atelier Nadar, Carlotte Zambelli, 1910, black and white negative on glass support, dim. 21 x 27 cm, Paris, médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie, inv. M/80 / 206 Related literature Henry Detouche, "Un sculpteur de la danse: Boris Frödman", in L'art et les artistes, April 1, 1910, pp. 108-114. This elegant dancer's figure of Carlotta Zambelli, an Italian-born ballerina and star of the Paris Opéra, is part of Boris Frodmann-Cluzel's body of work dedicated to the art of dance. Standing on a point in a flowery costume, she played the role of Mimi Pinson in Reynaldo Hahn's ballet La Fête chez Thérèse, first performed on February 16, 1910. After studying in St. Petersburg and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Russian sculptor Boris Frödman-Cluzel was recommended by Fabergé, and around 1907 worked in England at the Royal Court, for whom he created a series of statuettes of domestic animals. In 1910, Galerie Hébrard organized a monographic exhibition of small bronze statuettes by the sculptor under the title "Les Artistes de la Danse Russes et Français". Thanks to meticulous observation, Frödman-Cluzel's dancers, with their wide variety of attitudes, convey the truth of the gestures admired in Russian ballets, which were in vogue in Parisian and European artistic circles at the time. Our bronze was probably signed and stamped by the Hébrard foundry on the missing terrace.