Lot 43
  • 43

Marino Marini

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marino Marini
  • Piccolo Miracolo
  • stamped with the initials M.M.
  • bronze, hand-chiselled by the artist
  • height: 40.5cm.; 16in.

Provenance

Ciminaghi Collection, Milan

Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1975

Literature

Patrick Waldberg, Herbert Read & Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Marino Marini Complete Works, New York, 1970, no. 333, illustration of another cast p. 373

Carlo Pirovano, Marino Marini, Scultore, Milan, 1972, no. 339, illustration of another cast n.p.

Fondazione Marino Marini (ed.), Marino Marini. Catalogue raisonné of the Sculptures, Milan, 1998, no. 414, illustration of another cast p. 288

Condition

Brown/green patina with hand-chiselling to the rider's stomach. Apart from some minor patina wear to parts of the extremities and surface dirt in the crevices, this work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

There are casts of this model in three museum collections: the Museo Marino Marini, San Pancrazio, Florence; Fondazione Marino Marini, Pistoia, Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota-City.