Mid-Century Salvatore Messina Aluminium Panel Sculpture Italy in 1960s

"Nudo di donna" beautiful sculpture depicting a stylized woman's body, in white Carrara marble with pink shades. The artwork, characterized by curved volumes on a geometric support in grey marble. Manufacture of the Italian master Vittorio Gentile in 60s, signed lower side. VITTORIO GENTILE (1939 - 2022) Born in 1939, he was interested in the transformation of stone and form since he was a child. At 25 he established himself as a point of reference for a genre sculpture based on research, on morphoglobalism. He understood the sphere as an expansive figure and achieved important successes in Rome and the United States. It is the years of famous sculptures such as "Il Ratto", "Il Torso" that place him among the great contemporary interpreters. A success that will continue in the 80s and 90s and which will culminate in the great exhibition at the Vittoriano in 2003. Vittorio Gentile's forms have an organic genesis. They chase tensions and movements of bodies, abstractions, robust surfaces of shoulders, buttocks, torsos. The monument to Giovanni Falcone...

"Verso la vita", artwork by Clelia Bertetti, Lenci school, signed "Le Bertetti", Turin, 1930s. Glazed porcelain figurine depicting a woman blowing in the wind on the bow of a boat. Signature of the manufacturer and title of the work on the bottom. On the end face of the veil there is an old restoration. Literature: "LENCI Lo stile italiano nella ceramica, gli artisti e gli epigoni" - Catalog "Mostra Castello Medievale Bormida (Asti)", 23 May...

Salvatore Messina Production Italy 1960 ca. Big sculpture 'Tracciato in Sospensione’ A volume folded in steel foil, suspended from the ground, rectangular base Small dent in upper ...

Salvatore Messina, Italian Mid-Century Modern, 'Vertical Decomposed Refraction' Sculpture, Steel, Italy, 1970s This impressive large sculpture, titled "Vertical Decomposed Refraction...