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Medardo Rosso – Birichino or Gavroche

Medardo Rosso (Turin 1858 – Milan 1928) Birichino or Gavroche; 1887-88; bronze, Bronze, height 29.7 cm, with  a small screwed plate, fused with the sculpture, on a base formed by a reworked fragment of an antique base in breccia marble, height 13.8 cm. Under the base  are glued two old labels, a rectangular one on…

Lorenzo Bartolini – Lord Byron

  Lorenzo Bartolini Savignano di Prato 1777-Florence 1850) George Gordon VI Duke of Byron 1822 Dried raw clay (terracruda), h 50 cm Provenance: Milan, private collection   From the sources we know that on January 3, 1822 Byron, then in Pisa, posed for Bartolini who had expressed a wish to do his portrait. The poet…

Romano Dazzi – The Boxer Jack Johnson

Romano Dazzi (Rome 1905–La Lima, Pistoia 1976) Portrait of the Boxer Jack Johnson (Galveston 1878-Raleigh 1946) 1938 Polychrome ceramic, Manufacture Cantagalli Firenze (attribuited to), h. 48.5 cm Signed and dated under base: “F.RE DAZZI 1938” Provenance: Italy, private collection

Caterina de Julianis – Penitent Magdalene

Caterina de Julianis (Naples ca. 1670–1743) Penitent Magdalene 1717 Polychrome wax, painted paper, glass, tempera on paper and other materials, 21.5 × 27 cm, within the original gilded and ebonized frame, 53.7 × 59 cm, sealed on the back with lead leaf Signed and dated on the lower left: “Caterina de Julianis F. 1717” Provenance:…