19th & 20th Century European Sculpture

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Lot 137
  • 137

Alfredo Pina Italian, 1883-1966

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Description

  • Alfredo Pina
  • The Extreme Effort
  • signed: A PINA
  • bronze, dark green patina

Catalogue Note

Pina's biographer Pawlowski explains: 'Here at first is the Extreme Effort toward liberation, the mad hope of deliverance splendidly represented by this man who, kneeling on a rock, turns his head toward implacable heaven and wrings his arms'.

RELATED LITERATURE
de Pawlowski, Alfredo Pina, Paris, 1929