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Marino Marini

Cavallo (Horse)

Auction Closed

March 5, 01:40 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Marino Marini

1901 - 1980


Cavallo (Horse)

incised with the artist's monogram and signed with the artist's initials MM (on the base)

polychrome plaster

85.5 by 102 by 29.5 cm. 33⅝ by 40⅛ by 11⅝ in.

Executed in 1943, this work is unique.

Karl von Schumacher, Lucerne (gift from the artist)

Private Collection, Switzerland (by descent from the above by 1998)

Christie's, London, 1 March 2017, lot 486 (consigned by the above)

Robilant+Voena, London

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner

Locarno, Casa Rusca, Museo Cantonale del Ticino and London, European Academy for the Arts & Accademia Italiana, Marino Marini, 1999, n.n., pp. 204-05, illustrated

London, Robilant+Voena, Marino Marini. Horses, Horsemen and Female Nudes, February - June 2018, no. 5, pp. 64, 66, 69 and 105, illustrated in colour

Lamberto Vitali, Marini, Florence 1946, pp. 36-37, illustrated (dated 1945)

Enzo Carli, Marino Marini, Milan 1950, n.p., illustrated (dated 1944)

Umbro Apollonio, Marino Marini Sculptor, Milan 1953, pl. 68, p. 34, detail illustrated (dated 1945)

Patrick Waldberg, Herbert Read and Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Marino Marini Complete Works, Milan 1970, no. 166, p. 345, illustrated

Carlo Pirovano, Marino Marini scultore, Pistoia 1972, no. 175, n.p., illustrated

Marco Meneguzzo, Marino Marini Cavalli e cavalieri, Milan 1997, no. 23, p. 211, illustrated

Giovanni Carandente, Marino Marini, Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures, Milan 1998, no. 212, p. 153, illustrated

Pierre Casè, Ed., Marino Marini, Milan 1999, pp. 192-93, illustrated in colour