Lot 450
  • 450

Marino Marini

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marino Marini
  • Piccola figura (Small figure)
  • stamped M.M 
  • bronze
  • height: 32.5cm., 12¾in.

Provenance

Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Sidney Kohn, New York (sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 18th May 1978, lot 646)
Private Collection
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 9th May 2001, lot 508
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner

Literature

Patrick Waldberg, Herbert Read & Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Marino Marini. Complete Works, New York, 1970, no. 56, illustration of another cast p. 24
Fondazione Marino Marini (ed.), Marino Marini. Catalogue raisonné of the Sculptures, Milan, 1998, no. 105b, illustration of another cast p. 76

Condition

Apart from a horizontal crack just below the figure's proper right knee and some surface dirt in the crevices, this work is in overall fairly good condition.
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