Edgar Sahondo Art

"Scarecrow" Sculpture 24" x 22" x 4" inch Ed. of 99 by Huang Yulong Scarecrow/稻草人 Huang Yulong created his new work "Scarecrow" during the epidemic, trying to awaken the harmonious ...

Signed and dated: ‘F. Harwood Fecit 1764’ Collections: Probably commissioned by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827); Probably by descent at Gordon Castle, Banffshire to c.1948; Possibly acquired by Bert Crowther of Syon Lodge, Middlesex; Jacques Hollander (1940-2004); Christie’s, 5 December 2013, lot 101; Private collection; Sotheby’s, 2 July 2019, lot 106 Literature: John Preston Neale, Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales and Scotland, London, 1822, vol.I, unpaginated. This marble copy of an ancient bust in the Musei Capitolini usually identified as Faustina the Younger, the daughter of Antoninus Pius and future wife of Marcus Aurelius, was made in Florence by Francis Harwood in 1764. Harwood was one of the most prolific suppliers of decorative marbles for the Grand Tour market and this finely worked example demonstrates the quality of luxury goods available to travellers to Italy. So often anonymous, this unusually signed and dated example, raises questions about the status of marble copies in the period and of sculptors such as Harwood who are known principally for ornamental work. Harwood’s origins remain obscure. He is documented living in Palazzo Zuccari with Joshua Reynolds and the Irish sculptor Simon Vierpyl at Easter 1752, he had certainly settled permanently in Florence by the following year, when he is recorded working with Joseph Wilton. He was admitted to the Florentine Academy on 12 January 1755 (as pittore Inglese, although he was described as scultore in the matriculation account). After Wilson returned to England in 1755 Harwood appears to have worked in a studio near SS. Annunziata with Giovanni Battista Piamontini who had made life-size copies of The Wrestlers and The Listening Slave for Joseph Leeson in 1754. In 1758 both sculptors were contracted to make a statue and a trophy to complete the decoration of the Porta San Gallo, Harwood completing a statue of Equality, installed the following year. By 1760 Harwood was on the brink of his most productive period as a sculptor, producing copies of celebrated antiquities for the ever-increasing audience of Grand Tour travellers and for the domestic market in London. In 1761 Harwood met the young architect James Adam who was in Italy specifically to make contact with suppliers for Robert Adam’s burgeoning practice back in Britain. The Adams offered a remarkably cohesive design package to their clients, encompassing not just architecture, but fixtures, fittings and furniture as well. Harwood was able to supply the brothers with marbles for their new interiors. At Syon, for example, Harwood produced a full-size copy of Michelangelo’s Bacchus for the new dining room the Adams had designed for Hugh Smythson, 1st Duke of Northumberland. Harwood seems to have also specialised in producing sets of library busts. In 1758 Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, a distinguished traveller commissioned a set of busts which remain in situ at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Adam brothers were producing designs for new interiors at Castle Ashby at this date. The set included representations of: Cicero, Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Faustina the Younger, Sappho, Seneca and Homer. Each of these busts Harwood seems to have replicated for multiple patrons, another Adam patron, Thomas Dundas...

Divyendu Anand - Only Love Edition 2 of 9 Oxidised Bronze over Stone Composite Granite Base H 29 x W 10 x D 8 inches, 2023 Growing up with the thoughts of altruism, idealism and bea...

Venus Italica, imposing sculpture in white Carrara marble, mid-nineteenth-century Roman atelier. Antonio Canova made several sculptures depicting Venus. The first was made as compen...

Standing figure of Julius Caesar wearing a Tunic and holding a billowing drapery with a composition marble square-section pedestal. . The other figure is of Hannibal. Provenance fro...

"The Passage" Basalt Sculpture (2Pieces) 16" x 12" x 8" inch by Eman Barakat Eman Barakat is an Egyptian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born ...

Glenna Goodacre was commissioned to create the largescale bronze Sidewalk Society in Albuquerque Plaza, New Mexico. Her intention was for people to interact with her sculpture, and t...

The Music - Sculpture is a magnificent artwork realized by the Italian artist Benedetto Robazza (Rome, 1936-2020). Travertine sculpture realized by the fusion of auburn pewter. Limited edition of 15 exemplars. Dimensions: cm 11 x 11 x 3 (base); cm 9 x 5 x 32 (sculpture). Very good conditions. This sculpture is a splendid creation by one of the most appreciated sculptors all over the world. Bendetto Robazza was a great sculptor but also a talented portrait painter, demanded among the politicians, people in finance, the military, ecclesiastical and showbusiness world: he had the honour of being invited to portray American President Regan, whose bust is displayed in in the prestigious Roosevelt room in the White House. He enjoyed portraying big stars of yesterday and today: Rudolf Valentino...

This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athletes figure , on a cylindrical base . Exaltation of the male strength and beauty, inspired by the trend i...

"Mice" Abstract Bronze Sculpture (2Pieces) by Eman Barakat Size of each piece: 7" x 13" x 10" inch 4" x 8" x 6" inch Eman Barakat is an Egyptian Postwar & Contemporary artist who ...

A sculpture by Felipe Castaneda. "Pensando" is a contemporary figurative white marble sculpture by Mexican artist Felipe Castaneda. The artwork is signed in the lower right, " F. Cas...

Cat/bird is a unique smoke-fired sandstone sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 30 cm × 11 cm × 24 cm (11.8 × 4.3 × 9.4 in). This artwork ironicall...