The figure of a boy pulling on a glove is built around a simple everyday gesture. Heavy winter clothing forms a compact bronze volume against which the pale carved-ivory details stand out. The work formed a pair with another child figure, "Girl opening a handbag"; both bear the Etling Paris mark, and one of the figures is signed Fath. Such small genre works show how early-20th-century Parisian decorative sculpture transformed an everyday scene into a carefully finished interior object.

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