Lot 413
  • 413

Marino Marini

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Marino Marini
  • Piccola Pomona
  • Stamped with the raised initials M.M. and with the foundry mark Fonderia M.A.F Milano
  • Bronze
  • Height: 16 1/8 in.
  • 41 cm

Provenance

Marlborough Galeria D'Arte, Rome

Literature

Patrick Waldberg, Herbert Read & Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, L'Oeuvre complète de Marino Marini, Paris, 1970, illustration of another cast p. 114
Marino Marini (exhibition catalogue), Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, 1982, illustration of another cast pl. 10c
Mario de Micheli, ed., Marino Marini, Catalogo del Centro di Documentazione del-l'Opera di Marino Marini, Pistoia, 1990, illustration of another cast pl. 68
Sam Hunter & David Finn, Marino Marini, The Sculpture, New York, 1993, illustration of another cast p. 159
Marco Meneguzzo, Marino Marini - Il Museo alla Villa Reale di Milano, Milan, 1997, no. 8, illustration of another cast n.p.
Giovanni Carandente, Marino Marini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures, Milan, 1998, no. 198b, illustration of another cast p. 143

Condition

The work is in very good condition. The bronze features a brown patina covered with plaster residue and other light accretion inherent to the artist's technique. Otherwise good.
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Catalogue Note

Other casts of the present work from the edition of 8 are found in the Museo Marino Marini, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Centro di Documentazione Marino Marini, Pistoia & Fondazione Marino Marini, Palazzo del Tau, Pistoia.