
PROPERTY OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM
Torso
Lot Closed
March 5, 03:43 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Alberto Viani
1906 - 1989
Torso
marble
height: 37 ⅛ in.
94 cm.
Executed in 1945.
Leone Traverso, Florence (acquired by 1949)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1949
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth Century Italian Art, 1949, no. 133, p. 135, illustrated (titled Nude in the catalogue)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture of the XXth Century, 1953, no. 101, p. 46
“Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions from July 1, 1949 to July 1, 1950,” The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, vol. 18.2, 1951, p. 32
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1958
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1977, p. 298, illustrated
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