19th & 20th Century Sculpture
19th & 20th Century Sculpture
Cesare Lapini
La Pudicizia (Modesty)
Lot Closed
July 12, 12:00 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Cesare Lapini
Italian
b. 1848
La Pudicizia (Modesty)
signed and dated: C. Lapini Firenze 1900
white marble
85.5cm., 33 3/4 in.
The Italian sculptor Cesare Lapini established in the last quarter of the 19th century and specialised in allegorical and genre subjects and models all'Antica, which he sold with great success from his Florence shop to an elite global clientele. The present sensuous marble displays a particularly finely textured surface with exquisitely carved hands.
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Panzetta, Nuovo dizionario degli scultori italiani, Turin, 2003, p. 513