Property from a Distinguished Spanish Private Collection
C.PITTALUGA | NYMPH HOLDING FLOWERS
Auction Closed
July 10, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Spanish Private Collection
C.PITTALUGA
Italian
(XIX-XX)
NYMPH HOLDING FLOWERS
signed: PITTALUGA
white marble
83cm., 32¾in.
Little biographical material on Pittaluga has been published. His Nymph, however, here in an elegant pose, belongs to a tradition of marble statuary current in fin-de-siècle Italy. The grace with which the Nymph is holding the flowers adds to the profound tenderness and serenity of the model, caught in a gentle state of contemplation.
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Panzetta, Nuovo Dizionario gli scultori italiani dell’ottocento e del primo novecento, vol. 2, Borgaro, 2003, p. 697