19th and 20th Century Sculpture
19th and 20th Century Sculpture
AFFORTUNATO GORI | GIRL WITH A GOAT
Auction Closed
July 10, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
AFFORTUNATO GORI
Italian
Active 1895-1925
GIRL WITH A GOAT
signed: A. Gory / Paris
white marble
29 by 71cm., 11⅜ by 28in.
The Florentine Affortunato Gori was a pupil of Augusto Rivalta. Whilst few details of his life are known, his work appears to have had a wide following. He exhibited a number of times at the Paris Salon between 1904 to 1923. The present playful lot shows a girl with short curls and a headband - a hairstyle commonly depicted by Gori, and fitting to the first two decades of the 20th century - compare also to probably Gori's best known work, the Oriental Dancer, lot 97 in this sale.
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Panzetta, Nuovo dizionario degli scultori Italiani dell'ottocento e del primo novecento da Antonio Canova ad Arturo Martini, Turin, 2003, p. 441