Tamara Karsavina dancing with cupids. Gold gilt bronze, 14" tall including marble base (1/2 inch  high). Signed and bearing foundry "Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris" mark. Another variant of this bronze  is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (http://search3.famsf.org:8080/view.shtml?keywords=karsavina&artist=&country=&period=&sort=&start=1&position=3&record=154493) however it lacks the attendant cupids there. 

Soudbinine sculpted some of his finest work whilst in Paris. He studied under August Rodin from 1906 and some of his better known pieces include sculptures of Maxim Gorky, and Anna Pavlova. His work can be found in museums throughout Europe: The Russian Museum, the Tretyakov, A.M. Gorky, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris and the Museum of Ceramics in Sevres.