Vincenzo Gemito

Meissonnier with palette and brushes

ANTONIO MARAINI The Good Shepherd bronze bas-relief cm 44.5 x 15 x 8 signed "A. Maraini" wooden base Antonio Maraini, born in Rome in 1886, was encourag...

Artist: Pietro Canonica Medium: bronze sculpture signed lower right "P. Canonica" Pietro Canonica (Moncalieri, 1869 - Rome, 1959) entered the Accademia Albertina in Turin at a very...

Artist: Marcello Mascherini Title: San Giorgio Edition: unique sculpture Madium: bronze sculpture Signature: signed on the base Bibliography: Alfo...

Artist: Giovanni Battista Alloati Title: Discord - Inkwell Medium: bronze sculpture with marble base Signature: signed on the right side “G. B. Alloati” Titled in the centre “La Discordia” On the back stamp of the “Fonderia opera d’Arte Betta Corrado – Torino” The Discordia - Inkwell by Giovanni Battista Alloati is a decorative object that skilfully combines the allegorical dimension with the Secessionist treatment of volumes and lines. this sculpture presents the typical traits of Art Nouveau language, accompanied by Symbolist accents that can be seen in the sinuous handling of the bodies and in the uncanny rendering of the personification of Discordia, with its characteristic snake-shaped hair. Giovanni Battista Alloati is also known as a skilful portraitist of illustrious personalities of early 20th century Italy. In 1911 he was among the artists involved in the creation of statues of athletes for the Turin Stadium, while in the post-war period, the sinuous secessionist line gradually disappeared in favour of a balanced return to order.

terracotta sculpture, 68 x 32 x 26 cm signed on the reverse side "G. Guastalla 1886". Giuseppe Guastalla (Florence, 1867 - Rome, 1952), who moved with his family to Rome after the B...

signed and dated lower right 'A. Calcagnadoro 1902'. In this majestic view of the Marmore Falls (Umbria), dated 1902, Calcagnadoro exhibits a naturalism full of symbolic evocations, in which the water element is the protagonist of the view. The place, visited by many artists and writers during the grand tour of Italy, is perfectly rendered in its wild and bursting dimension. Son of art (his father Cesare Calcagnadoro was an appreciated decorator), the artist from Rieti worked for a long time in the field of decorative art, achieving his most important successes with monumental paintings for architectural environments (Rieti, Sala Consiliare; Ligurian Pavilion at the Ethnographic Exhibition of 1911; Salone dei Ministri in the Palace of the Ministry of Education). The fame he achieved through this type of activity led him to obtain first a chair at the "Scuola preparatoria alle arti ornamentali" (preparatory school for the ornamental arts) of the municipality of Rome, then at the Institute of Fine Arts, where he was in close contact with Adolfo De Carolis. In parallel with his work as a decorator, Calcagnadoro devoted himself with enthusiasm and greater creative freedom to easel painting, constantly presenting the results of his research at national exhibitions. After his initial attempts to explore the themes of antiquity, in the early years of the 20th century the painter turned to the 'humanitarian socialism' of Duilio Cambellotti, Giacomo Balla, Giovanni Prini and Domenico Baccarini. His socially themed works convinced critics and institutions alike, as evidenced by the gold medal he was awarded for his painting The Unemployed, a dramatic painting of denunciation exhibited at the Florence Promotrice in 1904. Perhaps in deliberate opposition to the rhetorical language of architectural friezes...

Francesco Messina (Linguaglossa 1900 – Milan 1995), Fisherman (1930) Bronze sculpture measuring 131 x 52 x 65 cm, signed and dated 1930 on the base. Francesco Messina’s Fisherman w...

JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX 1827 - 1875 Le Chinois N°1 (study for Asia) (1868). Model from the observatory fountain. Sketch Height ca.60 cm A similar copy auctioned on June 22, 2023, at ...

Fine Grand Tour bronze sculpture of mercury flying on the wind after Giambologna. Polished rouge marble and bronze attached base. Green marble pedestal. Inscribed Jean de Bologne...

Nice, 19th-century gilt bronze cast by Emile Francois Carlier Exhibited: Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1865 (another cast) Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Pari...

Nice 19th-century cast with rich, brown patina by French sculptor Emile-Joseph-Nestor Carlier. Carlier frequently created large, multi-figural group sculptures. These are dramatic an...

Boar, patinated bronze, 19.5 x 32 x 12 cm, on the bottom the author's logo and a numerical description. Weight: 4.35 kg, edition 3 of 8, 2022. Mariusz Dydo...