Emilio Santarelli – Bust of François-Xavier Fabre
Emilio Santarelli Florence 1801-1886 Bust of François-Xavier Fabre (1766-1837) • 1820 ca. Marble, h. 62 cm
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Emilio Greco – Sybil (bronze)
EMILIO GRECO (Catania 1913 – Rome 1995) Sybil, 1951 Bronze, 57 x 51 x 32 cm Signed and dated lower right: GRECO 1951 Provenance: Rome, Riccardo Gualino collection; Forlì, private collection Bibliography and Exhibitions: VI Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte di Roma, 1951, Room 8, pp. 12 – 13, n. 13; Bernhard Degenhart, Emilio Greco, Berlin und…
Emilio Greco – Sybil (terracotta)
EMILIO GRECO (Catania 1913 – Rome 1995) Sybil, 1951 Terracotta, 57 x 51 x 32 cm Signed and dated lower right: GRECO 1951 Provenance: Rome, Riccardo Gualino collection; Forlì, private collection Bibliography and Exhibitions: Wolfgang Braunfels, Meisterwerke europäischer Plastik von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Wien 1958, n. 165; Leonardo Sciascia, Emilio Greco, edited by…
Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) e Pietro Belli (1780-1828) – Monument to Maria Christina of Austria, from Canova
Giovacchino (Rome 1756-1822) and Pietro Belli (1780-1828) Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria, from Canova 1815 ca. Carrara statuary marble, black marble, hammered bronze, chiseled and gilded with double gilding, 21.7 x 18.5 x 7 cm Provenance: Italy, private collection This very refined scale reduction of the Monument to Maria Cristina of Austria by Canova, judged by Stendhal to be the most beautiful monument ever built, testifies to the cult of contemporaries for the great sculptor and the collecting taste for precious replicas of his inventions in different techniques, from gilded bronze…
Edoardo De Albertis – Allegorical Female Figure with a Festoon
Edoardo De Albertis Genoa 1874-1950 Allegorical Female Figure with a Festoon (possible study for the War Memorial of Genoa or the War Memorial of Cesarena) • 1923 ca. Original plaster sketch, 40 x 30 x 33 cm
Paolo Troubetzkoy – Gabriele D’Annunzio
Paolo Troubetzkoy Intra 1866 – Suna 1937 Gabriele D’Annunzio 1911 Bronze, lost wax, with dark patina, 43 x 31 x 32 cm Signed and dated at base: “Paul Troub[…] 1911”; foundry stamp: “C. Valsuani Cire Perdue” Provenance: Italy, private collection The long-lasting friendship between D’Annunzio and Troubetzkoy, witnessed by their meetings, correspondence and a poetical…
Carmine Tripodi – Self-portrait
Carmine Tripodi (Oppido Mamertina (Reggio Calabria) 1899 – Rome 1968) Self-portrait 1926 plaster, 52 x 22 x 20 cm
Ettore Ferrari – Cum Spartaco pugnavit
Ettore Ferrari Rome, 1845-1929 Cum Spartaco Pugnavit 1877 Terracotta, height 36 cm Initialled and dated: “EF 1877” Provenance: Rome, Bruno Mantura collection Bibliography: Bruno Mantura, Ettore Ferrari. Sculture tra il 1867 e il 1880, in Capitolium, XLIX (1974), 7-8, pp. 41-50; Enrico Guidoni, Il gesto della Rivoluzione. Il Bruto di Ettore Ferrari e la linea…
Antonio Berti – Female Portrait
Antonio Berti (San Piero a Sieve 1904–Sesto Fiorentino 1990) Female Portrait 1938 Bronze, h 55 cm Signed: “Antonio Berti 1938”
Leonardo Bistolfi – Head of a Philosopher
Leonardo Bistolfi (Casale Monferrato (AL) 1859 – La Loggia (TO) 1933) Head of a Philosopher bronze 33.6 x 35.6 x 14 cm travertine base 46.6 x 44 x 20 cm Signed lower left: LB + The bronze head is a detail of the figure of the Philosopher (or of Thought) belonging to the marble sculptural…