Attilio Piccirilli 1866-1945

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Description

Attilio Piccirilli
Spring Dream
inscribed A. Piccirilli (on back of base)
bronze with green-black patina
Height: 12 in.
30.5 cm.
executed in 1918

Provenance

(Sale: Sotheby's, New York, September 9, 1993, lot 162, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

For a discussion of this model and illustrations of examples in marble and clay, see J. V. Lombardo, Piccirilli, Life of an American Sculptor, New York, 1944, pp 183-185, 249, 328, 337, 339, 347, 349.