Pair of 17th Century Spanish Giltwood Column Pedestals

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Pair of 17th Century Spanish Giltwood Column Pedestals

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Wonderful pair of Spanish 17th century giltwood columns with exceptional carving decorated in the estofado technique of polychrome over gilding with a scratched out design. With birds, putto heads acanthus and other floral decoration. The backs are open where they were attached to a shrine or altar. Provenance: Alfredo Valente Gallery, NYC Included in the sale is a 1960 catalog from the gallery showing the columns. Alfredo Valente was an interesting New York character: Singer, painter, photographer, art collector, dealer, cultural administrator, Alfredo Valente (1899-1973) was among the most cultured of the camera artists who chronicled Broadway. Born in Calabria, Italy, trained as a fine artist and also as an opera singer, he came to the United States in 1927. For several years he sang in public, a career that culminated in a not too successful performance of "Aida" in 1930 with the Civic Opera. Valente's career as a visual artist went better. In 1931, he became the photographer for the Group Theater, the experimental repertory company organized by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg. His images evoked the seriousness of that idealistic troupe and established his bona fides on Broadway. By March 1933, he was publishing regularly in magazines and in newspapers. Through the 1930s Valente (along with Gray-O'Reilly Studio) worked for Stage, then the chief monthly chronicling Broadway. Like James Abbe a decade before, Valente made a specialty of portraying performers in costume, but not performing their parts. These full page character-portraits became his 1930s trademark. At various points during 1935-37 he worked as a contract photographer shooting publicity for Columbia Pictures. Throughout his career, he was intimately connected with the painting community in New York. In 1952, he exhibited at the New School twenty-eight portraits of New York painters accompanying their own self portraits. He invested the profits of his portrait business in paintings, collecting substantial bodies of worked by Raphael Soyer, Kuniyoshi, and Ben Shahn. By 1959, the value of these paintings had risen to such extent that Valente closed his portrait studio and founded the Alfredo Valente Gallery at 119 W. 57th Street in Manhattan. In January 1964, the Chase Manhattan Bank exhibited a show devoted to his work entitled, "The Personal and Private Eye of the Photographer".

Dimensions:
Height: 44 in (111.76 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 10 in (25.4 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Baroque (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Wood,Gilt
Place of Origin:
Spain
Period:
17th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1675
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Considering their age, they are in great condition. One has a crack running down the front. Both have losses to carving and surface losses to paint and gilding throughout.
Seller Location:
Stamford, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU80309257873