Notes below copied from Christie's site. This was a cha-cha, and I used PS. To be followed by a closer view. The price realized was $18,400, short of the $20,000 estimate.   Flash   A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A BATHER BY JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN, FRENCH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY Depicting a nude woman, her hands raised to dry her hair, standing in front of a vase draped with a cloth 30in. (76.2cm.) high, on grey marble base   THE PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY Provenance William Randolph Hearst, sold Gimbels, New York 1943, lot 71A The present lot is closely related to the life-size marble statue of 'Une Baigneuse', now in the Louvre Museum, which Marin carved in 1808. The statue was exhibited at the Salon of that year, and won immense popularity. Marin worked out the composition of the sculpture in a long series of statuettes, in which he experimented with minor variations in the positions of the hands and subtle changes in the coiffeur.

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