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Oronzio Maldarelli

Bianca No. 2

Lot Closed

March 17, 05:13 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Oronzio Maldarelli

1892 - 1963

Bianca No. 2 


inscribed O. Maldarelli Sc. (along the figure's foot)

bronze with dark brown patina

height: 28 in.

height: 71 cm.

Concieved in 1950.

Midtown Galleries, New York (acquired in 1953)

Sotheby's New York, 1 March, 2006 lot 150 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Forty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1951, no. 254, illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, 1951, no. 42

Sao Paolo, Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna, I Bienal, 1951, no. 89, pg. 39 (lent by Midtown Gallery)

New York, Rosenberg Gallery, 1959

Moscow, USIA, 1959

New York, American Federation of the Arts;Jacksonville Museum of Art; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art; New York, National Academy of Design; Evanston, Terra Museum of American Art; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center; Colorado Springs Fine Arts; Saint Paul, Minnesota Museum of Art,  The Figure in 20th Century American Art; Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985-1986, p. 34-35, illustrated

The present work was awarded the George D. Widener Gold Medal at the The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1951.