MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION
MEDARDO ROSSO [1858-1928]
Described by many as the:
'Father of Modern Sculpture'
Gavroche - Il Birichino
1882/83
bronze
signed
31.2 cm high
Provenance:
Finarte auctions, Milan, Italy
8 June 1993, lot 132.
Medardo Rosso expert Luciano Caramel [1935-2022] described this as a 'relatively early' lifetime cast - see catalogue:
'Chiseled with a Brush - Italian Sculpture 1860 to 1925', 1994-5, Art Institute of Chicago, USA;
cat. no. 23 - pages 96 and 99
[2 full page illustrations].
Current Medardo Rosso expert Sharon Hecker considered it to be a 'later' lifetime cast when she catalogued it for the exhibition:
'Winds of Change - the Milanese Avant-Garde 1860-1900', 2003, Naples and Florida, no. 27
pages 84-86 [illustrated].
IL VECCHIO [Old Man]
1883
bronze
[cast c. 1884]
29 cm high
Provenance: Guido Caprotti
Monza, Italy [1887-1966]
an artist who knew Rosso.
Medardo Rosso expert Sharon Hecker catalogued this cast for the exhibition: 'Winds of Change - the Milanese Avant-Garde',
2003, Naples & Florida, no. 31, pages 94-95 [illustrated].
Very few casts are known to exist - Rosso cast a few in Milan in the 1880s and a few more in Paris in the late 1880s.
Il Cantante a Spasso
[The Wandering Singer]
1882-83
bronze, signed
28 cm high
[cast c. 1882]
Provenance: Private collection
Medardo Rosso expert Sharon Hecker catalogued this cast for the exhibition: 'Winds of Change -the Milanese Avant-Garde..', 2003, Naples and Florida, no. 29, pages 90-91 [illustrated].
Very few casts exist.
