Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

Italian, 1910-1998

Umberto Mastroianni (September 21, 1910 in Fontana Liri – February 25, 1998 in Marino, Italy), was an Italian abstract sculptor. In 1989, he received the first Praemium Imperiale for sculpture. During World War II, he was in the Italian resistance movement. He was the uncle of the actor Marcello Mastroianni and the film editor Ruggero Mastroianni. The Museo Civico Umberto Mastroianni was established in his honour. The son of Vincenzo Mastroianni and his second wife Luigia Maria Vincenza Conte, Umberto was an uncle of the actor Marcello Mastroianni: in fact, his father Vincenzo had had a son named Ottone from his first wife, Concetta Conte, sister of his second wife, who was Marcello's father. Umberto arrived in Rome as a 14-year-old in 1924, where he attended drawing courses at the Accademia di San Marcello at the same time as his uncle Domenico's studio. He moved two years later, in 1926. The young Umberto modelled portraits of archaic taste, in terracotta, which were later transferred to bronze castings: myth and religious subjects were Umberto Mastroianni's stylistic hallmark in the pre-war period, alongside stylistic exercises with little boy heads and his favourite subject being masks of young women, with light and persuasive features. In 1930 came the first official recognition, the Tourism Prize, offered by the Ministry of Education and, shortly afterwards, the first exhibitions at national and European level. His first solo exhibition in 1931 at the ‘Galleria Genova’ in Genoa. From 1933 onwards, he regularly exhibited at national trade union exhibitions and was invited to all the Quadriennali in Rome, the Promotrici in Turin and the Biennali in Venice. In 1935 he took part in the Quadriennale in Rome for the first time, the following year in the Venice Biennale. His pictorial works on poor materials also date back to the early 1940s: he is the first Italian abstract sculptor, the leader of the 20th century revolution and an artist of absolute international importance. These are dynamic abstract-geometric forms that acquire depth in terracotta, plaster, cardboard and rough sacks (jute), coloured and scraped. Mastroianni's poetics decisively took up the echoes of the plastic dynamism of Boccioni's ascendancy, revisiting and broadening its contents and cultural references. Some of his early post-war works in worn-out jute (works of very small dimensions, almost as if they were relics of ancient civilisations, later found) are preserved in the Galleria d'arte moderna in Rome, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Salomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. In fact, his research, starting from direct references to the Futurist season, to Brancusi's Cubist season, to John Arp's and Henry Moore's plastics, hinges on the study and rendering of dynamic values, understood and conferred in the structures understood as a clot of lines of force, the generative nucleus of an explosion of gestures blocked by the weight of matter, trapped in matter. The subsequent evolution is the landing to the Informal season, (1950-1961) a completely autonomous phase, another act of his extraordinary creative personality.

Creator: Umberto Mastroianni

Bronze Sculpture Woman's Face by Umberto Mastroianni

$4,187

Bronze Sculpture Woman's Face by Umberto Mastroianni

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Milan, Italy

1940s "Face". Lost wax bronze. Signed. Biography Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Umberto Mastroianni was born in Fintana Liri, Italy, on September 21, 1910. His formal training be...

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1940s Italian Modern Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Marble

Bronze sculpture of Umberto Mastroianni

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Bronze sculpture of Umberto Mastroianni

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Torino, IT

Sculpture Umberto Mastroianni Head made of bronze by lost-wax casting. Probable 1930s era, a time when a Mastroianni in the early days of his career used to practice with female fa...

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1930s European Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

Bronze Resting Camel Sculpture on Marble Stand French School

$1,850

H 6 in W 16 in D 8 in

Bronze Resting Camel Sculpture on Marble Stand French School

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

French School of an Egyptian Middle Eastern Camel Sculpture on Marble Stand. Large and heavy art Deco Style Bronze Resting Camel on White Marble Stand Sculpture. Boasting a dark pati...

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Late 20th Century Egyptian Moorish Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

Marcel Marti Bronze Abstract Totem Sculpture

$7,200

H 24.5 in W 5.5 in D 5.5 in

Marcel Marti Bronze Abstract Totem Sculpture

Located in New York, NY

Superb Marcel Marti (1925–2010) attributed abstract patinated bronze sculpture that is unique from every angle. This is a striking postwar piece of art fr...

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1950s Spanish Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

African Benin Bronze Sculpture

$1,200

H 15.5 in W 7 in D 6.5 in

African Benin Bronze Sculpture

Located in Atlanta, GA

African Benin Bronze Sculpture, Africa, circa mid 20th Century. Beautiful casting with wonderful attention to detail. Solid, heavyweight...

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20th Century Beninese Tribal Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Metal, Bronze

Bronze Head Sculpture

$1,536

H 4 in Dm 2 in

Bronze Head Sculpture

Located in Long Island City, NY

This bronze head sculpture signed by artist O. Ramsburg can be displayed as an elegant table top art piece.

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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

Vincenzo Eulissi 1970 Bronze Modern Sculpture in Lost Wax

$2,631

H 6.7 in W 5.91 in D 3.15 in

Vincenzo Eulissi 1970 Bronze Modern Sculpture in Lost Wax

Located in Milano, IT

Vincenzo Eulissi 1970 gilded bronze modern sculpture in lost wax.

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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

Art Deco Style Brown Patinated Bronze Woman’s Head Sculpture

$5,024

H 25.6 in W 5.91 in D 11.03 in

Art Deco Style Brown Patinated Bronze Woman’s Head Sculpture

By Alberto Giacometti

Located in Saint-Ouen, FR

Art Deco style brown patinated bronze sculpture representing a woman’s head. This bronze sculpture is mounted on a square base, forming a vertical composition suitable for interior d...

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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

French Alsatian Dog Sculpture of Patinated Bronze by Jules Edmond Masson

$5,895

H 13.75 in W 31.5 in D 6.63 in

French Alsatian Dog Sculpture of Patinated Bronze by Jules Edmond Masson

By Jules Edmond Masson 1

Located in Austin, TX

A fine French sculptural figure of an Alsatian dog of patinated bronze - from the Belle Epoque period - set upon a rectangular raised plinth base of black marble. Signed to the base...

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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Stone, Marble, Metal, Bronze

Bronze sculpture in the way of Umberto Boccioni

$1,555

H 7.49 in W 5.71 in D 2.37 in

Bronze sculpture in the way of Umberto Boccioni

Located in Saint-Ouen, FR

This bronze sculpture celebrates speed, motion, and the fusion of man with modern technology. The human form is transformed into flowing, aerodynamic lines that convey unstoppable fo...

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20th Century French Futurist Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

Sculpture of a Woman's Head in Patinated Bronze after Picasso, 21st Century.

$3,349

H 14.18 in W 10.63 in D 7.09 in

Sculpture of a Woman's Head in Patinated Bronze after Picasso, 21st Century.

Located in Saint-Ouen, FR

Sculpture of a woman's head in patinated bronze after Picasso, contemporary art, 21st century. Sculpture of a woman's head in patinated bronze after Picasso, contemporary art, 21st ...

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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

20th Century Bronze Sculpture of a Dancing Faun

$4,154

H 31.5 in W 10.24 in D 12.21 in

20th Century Bronze Sculpture of a Dancing Faun

Located in Gloucestershire, GB

Classic and well-modelled sculpture of a dancing faun.

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20th Century British Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

Terracotta Sculpture Representing a Woman's Face

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H 34.5 in W 19.5 in D 19.5 in

Terracotta Sculpture Representing a Woman's Face

By Austin Prod

Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France

This nice sculpture representing a woman's face is made of terracotta on a square blackened wood base (slight shine on the chin and hair). Work signed by Austin Prod. 1980

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1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Terracotta

Rhinoceros Bronze Sculpture

$5,270 / item

H 7.88 in W 14.97 in D 5.12 in

Rhinoceros Bronze Sculpture

By Raffaello Romanelli

Located in Milan, IT

This is an original piece by Raffaello Romanelli executed in 2011 after being commissioned by a private collector to the Galleria. The rhinoceros was modeled with clay looking at different pictures and the clay mold...

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2010s Italian Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

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Located in Henley-on Thames, Oxfordshire

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Pair of 1950s Signed Mastroianni Abstracts, Pen on Paper

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Pair of 1950s Signed Mastroianni Abstracts, Pen on Paper

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Florence, Tuscany

Umberto Mastroianni (1910 to 1998) is considered one of the most important Italian artists of the twentieth century. He is internationally renowned for his enormous metal sculptures many of which are in public places in Italian cities and are also on display at the Fondazione Umberto Mastroianni in Frosinone. He also painted abstracts in watercolour, oil and pen. These two striking abstracts are...

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1950s Italian Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Umberto Mastroianni Bronze Sculpture, Italy, 1970s

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Umberto Mastroianni Bronze Sculpture, Italy, 1970s

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Naples, IT

Umberto Mastroianni Italian sculptor (Fontana Liri, Frosinone 1910-Marino, Rome, 1998). After studying at the Academy of S. Marcello in Rome, he moved with his family to Turin, he co...

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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

Umberto Mastroianni Bronze Sculpture, Italy, 1970s

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H 6.7 in W 3.15 in D 3.94 in

Umberto Mastroianni Bronze Sculpture, Italy, 1970s

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Naples, IT

Umberto Mastroianni Italian sculptor (Fontana Liri, Frosinone 1910-Marino, Rome, 1998). After studying at the Academy of S. Marcello in Rome, he moved with his family to Turin, he co...

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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Italian Artist Umberto Mastroianni Abstract Bronze Sculpture on Travertine Base

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H 7 in W 4 in D 2 in

Italian Artist Umberto Mastroianni Abstract Bronze Sculpture on Travertine Base

By Umberto Mastroianni

Located in Chicago, IL

A small abstract bronze sculpture by Italian artist Umberto Mastroianni. Signed Mastroianni and numbered 8/82. Signed ‘‘MASTROIANNI’...

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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Umberto Mastroianni Furniture

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Bronze

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