Contemporary Discoveries Including the Marcel Lehmann Lefranc Collection

Contemporary Discoveries Including the Marcel Lehmann Lefranc Collection

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The Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc Collection | Collection Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc

Marino Marini

Piccolo toro

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The Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc Collection

Marino Marini

1901 - 1980

Piccolo toro


signed with the artist's initials and numbered 6/6 (on the base)

painted and partially patinated bronze

17 x 31 x 34 cm; 6 ¾ x 12 ¼ x 13 ⅜ in.

Executed in 1951, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6 plus one artist's proof.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Fondazione Marino Marini.


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Collection Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc

Marino Marini

1901 - 1980

Piccolo toro


signé des initiales de l'artiste et numéroté 6/6 (sur la base)

bronze peint et partiellement patiné

17 x 31 x 34 cm; 6 ¾ x 12 ¼ x 13 ⅜ in.

Exécutée en 1951, cette œuvre est le numéro 6 d'une édition en 6 exemplaires plus une épreuve d'artiste.


L'authenticité de cette œuvre a été confirmée par la Fondazione Marino Marini.

Walter Carsen, Toronto

The Hanover Gallery, London

Christie's, New York, 11 November 1992, lot 19

Galerie Contini, Venice

Marcel Lehmann-Lefranc, Paris (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Eduard Trier, Moderne Plastik: Von Auguste Rodin bis Marino Marini, Cologne 1954, p. 17 (another cast)

Umbro Apollonio, Marino Marini scultore, Milan 1958, p 100, illustrated (another cast in plaster)

Helmut Lederer and Eduard Trier, Marino Marini, London 1961, p. 74, illustrated (another cast)

Dorothy Rodgers, My Favorite Things, New York 1967, p. 96 (another cast)

Patrick Waldberg, Herbert Read and Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Marino Marini, Complete Works, New York 1970, p. 366, no. 285, illustrated (another cast)

Marina Beretta, Marino Marini. Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures, Milan 1998, p. 251, no. 356b, illustrated (another cast)

Arles, Musée Réattu; Lisboa, Chiado Museum, Marino Marini, March - September 1995, no. 34 (the original plaster exhibited)