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Vincenzo Gemito – Head of a Young Boy, Piccolo Malatiello

Gemito Vincenzo Naples 1852-1929 Head of a Young Boy, Piccolo Malatiello • 1870 ca. Terracotta with slight patina, 11.5 x 9 x 12 cm Reference bibliography: Salvatore Di Giacomo, Vincenzo Gemito. La vita, l’opera, Naples 1905; Ottavio Morisani, Vita di Gemito, Naples 1936; Alfredo Schettini, Gemito, Milan 1944; Carlo Siviero, Gemito, Naples 1953; Maria Simonetta…

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…

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…

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…

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…