Friends Forever

An elegant woman stands with her hands resting on the heads of two Russian borzoi hounds. Chiparus specialized in chryselephantine sculpture. This technique, famously used in Greek antiquity, combined bronze and ivory, and was particularly popular in France during the art deco period in the 1920s and 1930s. 'Friends Forever' was produced in multiples, in three different sizes, this being the largest. The elegance of the woman resting her hands on her slender hounds, as well as the outline of her body beneath her clothes, accords with the ideal of the 'New Woman', la garçonne (the boy-woman), that emerged after the First World War.