Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Private European Collection
Marino Marini
Piccolo guerriero (Small Warrior)
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Marino Marini
1901 - 1980
Piccolo guerriero (Small Warrior)
inscribed with the initials MM, numbered 2/6 and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Artistica Battaglia
bronze
height: 20.3cm., 8in.
Conceived in 1959 and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 6.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Fondazione Marino Marini.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne
Sammlung Manfred Behr, Stuttgart
Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above in 1990)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Sammlung Manfred Behr, Stuttgart
Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above in 1990)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Carlo Pirovano (ed.), Marino Marini scultore, Milan, 1972, no. 361, another cast illustrated; the present cast listed
Fondazione Marino Marini (ed.), Marino Marini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures, Milan, 1998, no. 429, another cast illustrated in colour p. 298
Fondazione Marino Marini (ed.), Marino Marini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures, Milan, 1998, no. 429, another cast illustrated in colour p. 298