Poertzel joins high-price Deco

Buoyant as the world of Art Deco is, bidders still like familiar names, which in the world of bronze and ivory 1930s figures tend to mean Demetre Chiparus and Ferdinand Preiss.

Nevertheless, when the group, right, by the less-well-known Berlin sculptor Professor Poertzel, was …

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