ELENA ALEXANDROVNA JANSON-MANIZER (1890-1971) Natalia Dudinskaya as ‘Princess Aurora’ in the ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Tchaikovsky, circa 1938
Lot 203
5 0007 000
signed in Cyrillic ‘Balerina / Avtor Yanson Manizer / Lenizo’ (at the base)
bronze, patina
H. 41 cm
executed circa 1938
Elena Yanson-Manizer was the 20th century's leading sculptor of the Soviet ballet. She was a wife of Soviet sculptor Matvey Manizer.