ANTONIO FRILLI | FEMALE NUDE

A Florentine artist of superb skill, Antonio Frilli belonged to a tradition of distinguished Italian carvers that included Pietro Bazzanti, Cesare Lapini and Cesare Fantacchiotti. His successful workshop in Florence produced sculptures in marble and alabaster, concentrating on elegant compositions and decorative works for the international market, which provided Frilli’s main clientele. Frilli is first recorded as exhibiting at the Esposizione Nazionale di Roma in 1883, after which he exhibited in Glasgow (1888) and Paris (1889). The present marble is emblematic of Frilli's oeuvre of highly decorative female nudes. 

RELATED LITERATURE

A. Panzetta, Nuovo Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento e del Primo Novecento, Turin, 2003, vol. 1, pp. 377, 416