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Marcello Mascherini
Letter from Marcello Mascherini to Nesto Jacometti - 1956

1956

About the Item

L.T.S addressed to the collector Nesto Jacometti, on headed paper "Marcello Mascherini - Sculptor - Trieste - Via Fabio Severo 20". Trieste, 2 May 1956. 21. 29 cm. two holes on the right side. Perfect condition. Marcello Mascherini writes in response to a letter of April 29 from Nesto Jacometti, and tells him that the Giotto Gallery is now closed, his friend Pesoli is in Rome, and that he will somehow repay the sum perhaps of a sale. He hopes to see it at the Biennale. Marcello Mascherini was successful in 1936 when his works were exhibited in Vienna, Budapest, Bern, Lienz, Sydney, Paris, New York and San Francisco, but his activity culminated when he received the Accademia d'Italia single prize for Sculpture by Mussolini (1940). Also worthy of mention is his career as a set designer, which began in 1948 and intensified after a stay in Paris in 1951 where he met Boris Vian and Jean-Louis Barrault, and for his work as a ship decorator which began with the two bronze profiles of the Duce and del Re built for the motor ship "Victoria I" in 1930, with which he started a profitable business. To consecrate him in the Olympus of Italian sculptors were all the successes from the thirties onwards, culminating in many awards, invitations and international successes: from the Italian Art Exhibition in Budapest in 1936 to the commission for the realization of one of the statues of the pediment of the Italian pavilion at the Universal Exposition in Paris (awarded with the gold medal) in 1937, at the prize, also in 1937, of the Italian Art Exhibition in Paris, he was nominated in 1948 as Academician of S. Luca, as well as participation in the 1949 Italian art exhibition of the twentieth century at the Museum of modern art in New York. There is no doubt that M. enjoyed the support of the Italian political establishment, which greatly favored him. In 1952 he too became a member of the board of the Biennale; in 1954 he again had a personal section. In this same year he also won the second prize for sculpture at the São Paulo Biennial of Brazil. He returned to Venice for the 1956 edition of the Biennale in which he hopes to meet his friend and collector Jacometti. It was in this period that he finished the War Memorial for the city of Trieste and in Rome he met the American sculptor A. Calder.
  • Creator:
    Marcello Mascherini
  • Creation Year:
    1956
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 8.27 in (21 cm)Width: 11.42 in (29 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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  • Condition:
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  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: J-790581stDibs: LU65037629112
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