19th & 20th Century Sculpture
19th & 20th Century Sculpture
Property from a British Private Collection
Antonio Rossetti
Self-Help (A Reading Girl)
Lot Closed
July 14, 10:51 AM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Antonio Rossetti
b. 1819
Self-Help (A Reading Girl)
signed and dated: A. Rossetti Fece / Roma. 1873.
white marble, on a revolving veined white marble pedestal with three tablets inscribed respectively: SELF-HELP, TIME IS PRECIOUS, and: IT IS BETTER TO GET WISDOM THAN GOLD
figure and base: 120cm., 47¼in.
pedestal: 91cm., 37in., 35¾in.
Sotheby's London, 5 November 2002, lot 162;
private collection, United Kingdom
private collection, United Kingdom
A. Panzetta, Nuovo dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell’Ottocento e del Primo Novecento, Turin, 2003, p. 822, fig. 1629