Auction 35
By Art La Rosa - Casa d'Aste
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Apr 16, 2022
Viale Africa, 12 - 95129 Catania, Italy
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LOT 6:
Emilio Greco (Catania, 1913 - Roma, 1995)
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Start price:
€
900
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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Nude woman
20th century
Technique:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Diameter cm28
Signed. Copy 8 out of 10. To be considered a single work. The international recognition for the artist came at the Venice Biennale in 1956 with the Grand Prize for Sculpture, his drawings and sculptures reflect an ideal of beauty that, through turned, elongated and well-supplied forms, bring back to an archaic mannerism. of the School of Fontainebleau. His point of reference can be considered the sculptor Pericle Fazzini.In his graphics, a perfect formal synthesis, clear, elegant and decisive, we find the essence of everything that is made in plastic forms, full of bronze, the woman's body constitutes his constant inspiration, in all his figurations.His creative wisdom, however, is applied to numerous other works, such as the monument to Pinocchio in Collodi, the doors of the Cathedral of Orvieto, and the Bas-reliefs for the church of SG Battista in Campi Bisanzio. Present in numerous museums: Tate Gallery - London; Hermitage - St. Petersburg; Pushkin Museum - Moscow; Hakone Open-Air Museum - Japan; Vatican Museums - Rome.
Technique:
Bronze
Dimensions:
Diameter cm28
Signed. Copy 8 out of 10. To be considered a single work. The international recognition for the artist came at the Venice Biennale in 1956 with the Grand Prize for Sculpture, his drawings and sculptures reflect an ideal of beauty that, through turned, elongated and well-supplied forms, bring back to an archaic mannerism. of the School of Fontainebleau. His point of reference can be considered the sculptor Pericle Fazzini.In his graphics, a perfect formal synthesis, clear, elegant and decisive, we find the essence of everything that is made in plastic forms, full of bronze, the woman's body constitutes his constant inspiration, in all his figurations.His creative wisdom, however, is applied to numerous other works, such as the monument to Pinocchio in Collodi, the doors of the Cathedral of Orvieto, and the Bas-reliefs for the church of SG Battista in Campi Bisanzio. Present in numerous museums: Tate Gallery - London; Hermitage - St. Petersburg; Pushkin Museum - Moscow; Hakone Open-Air Museum - Japan; Vatican Museums - Rome.
