Georges VAN DE VOORDE (1878-1964). Study of a bearded man. Study in plaster preliminary to the ivory version where the subject is sculpted and hollowed out of an elephant's tusk. Height: 28 cm. Provenance: Artist's studio. Collection of the Vandevoorde family since the mid-1960s (the spelling of the surname has no space in the civil register). We enclose a certificate of authenticity and provenance signed by Mr and Mrs Vandevoorde, the artist's grandchildren.