19th & 20th Century Sculpture
19th & 20th Century Sculpture
Pio Fedi
Cleopatra
Lot Closed
July 14, 10:56 AM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pio Fedi
1816 - 1892
Cleopatra
signed: PIO. FEDI. FIO.-O / SCOLPIVA.
white marble, on a red granite base
marble: 84 by 117cm., 33 by 46in.
base: 19 by 115 by 47cm., 7½ by 45¼ by 18½in.
Commissioned after 1842 by a Mr Benoit, New York;
private collection, USA
private collection, USA
H. Nichols B. Clark, A Marble Quarry: The James H. Ricau Collection of Sculpture at the Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 1997, p. 160