Berto Lardera

Collezione Franco Pensotti, Legnano

Venezia, XXVII Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1954, n. 60, pag. 125, illustrato
Kassel, Fridericianum Museum, Dokumenta I, l'Art du XXe siècle, 1905-1955, 1955
San Francisco, Museum of Art, Three contemporary sculptors (Berto Lardera, Reg Butler , David Smith), 1955
Parigi, Galerie Denise René, Sculptures Abstraites, 1956
Tokyo, Mostra di Scultura Italiana Contemporanea, 1961
Matera, Circolo della Scaletta, Chiese rupestri Madonna delle Virtù S. Nicola dei Greci, III Biennale Internazionale di Scultura Contemporanea, Scultura in Francia, 1992, pagg. 128 e 152,  illustrato
Spilimbergo, Fondazione Aldo Furlan, Scultori italiani a Parigi, C.S. Signori, E. Gilioli, B. Lardera, 1993, illustrato in IV di copertina
Genova, Palazzo Ducale, Presenze liguri alle Biennali di Venezia, 1995, n. 167, pag. 238, illustrato
Monsummano Terme, Villa Renatico Martini, Correnti astratte in Toscana, 1998, pag. 121, illustrato
Roma, Acquario Romano, MAC/ESPACE Arte concreta in Italia e in Francia 1948-1958, 1999, pag. 242, illustrato
Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi, Continuità, Arte in Toscana 1945-2000, 2002, vol. I (1945-1967), pagg. 71 e 160, illustrato
Acqui Terme, Spazio espositivo ex Kaimano, La scultura lingua viva, 2002, pag. 119, illustrato
La Spezia, Museo Diocesano, Palazzina delle Arti, Berto Lardera Tra due mondi, 2002-2003, n. 7, pagg. 20-44-140, illustrato

M. Seuphor, Berto Lardera, Neuchatel 1960, n. 89, pag. 141, illustrato
I. Jianou, Lardera, Parigi 1968, n. 47, pag. 70, illustrato

This work appears to be in generally good overall condition. There are light traces of scattered dust. There are few minor patina losses towards the center and the lower part of the upper ovoidal copper shape. There are light traces of wear and few small losses by the edges of the wood base.
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