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Bruno Innocenti
Signed Bruno Innocenti Portrait bust statue dated 1958 fire clay

1958

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Bruno Innocenti was a pupil of Libero Andreotti and, afterwards, he became his assistant. When Andreotti died, Innocenti took his place as Sculpture teacher at the Art Institute of Florence. Between the 1925 and the 1949 he held a lot of monographic exhibitions in several Italian and foreign cities (for example, he had an entire room only for him at the Venice Biennale in the 1938. In the 1946, while he was living in America, he exhibited at the Architectural League and, few years later, took part in a collective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum). From the 1950s he stopped exhibiting and entirely dedicated to teaching and to his to his private artistic production, also receiving important monumental public commission in Milan, Pisa, Florence and Maratea. He was also a life member of the Academy of Drawings in Florence. This portrait depict a friend of Bruno Innocenti reported with the monogram AM. Its made in Fire clay, that is a range of refractory clays used in the manufacture of ceramics, especially fire brick. The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines fire clay very generally as a "mineral aggregate composed of hydrous silicates of aluminium (Al2O3·2SiO2·2H2O) with or without free silica". It's signed and dated "B. INN. 58" on the right of the pedestal
  • Creator:
    Bruno Innocenti (1906 - 1986)
  • Creation Year:
    1958
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 15.36 in (39 cm)Width: 4.73 in (12 cm)Depth: 3.55 in (9 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Florence, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1240211454662

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