Interesting facts about Russian bronze and artists

From Finance Mininsty for 10 Years All of us know that some bronzes may have a round seal / stamp into them, what those stamps are about? Q: What does the Cyrillic abbreviations mean? A: From Finance Ministry for 10 years (starting from the year in the middle);…

Lanceray, Eugeny Alexandrovich. Does his name sound right to you? Most probably you say “Yes”, as this is a commonly known thing. All the major auction houses list his bronzes under Eugeny ALEXANDROVICH Lanceray. Never the less, I guess you will be surprised if I say this is wrong……

We’ve been writing about some fakes and reproductions with wrong signatures and names of the artists, as well as some foundry marks in this regard. Now we are giving you some examples of just misspellings on the totally genuine statues. Some other markings are just unique. There are two…

This historical bear by Lieberich was once for sale at an auction in USA. It looks good except a small thing – the signature is totally wrong as it reads “Modeled by Lanceray” in Cyrillic… The bear is a historical one, as it was killed by Russian Emperor…

L.N.Goncharova in her book “Russian bronze sculpture of 19th century” (Moscow, 2001, p.98) says that there are some models by Lanceray that have been cast at Fabr.C.F.Woerffel… I personally have never seen anything like that. It looks like this is a wrong statement and can not be accepted, just…

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Lanceray’s Middle Name

Strange and Unique Markings

Fakes

Lanceray at Woerffel, Grachev for Shopen?