Exceptional Neoclassical, Romantic and Modernist Sculpture

Exceptional Neoclassical, Romantic and Modernist Sculpture

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  Adolfo Wildt, Maschera dell'idiota (Mask of an Idiot)
  Estimate £120,000–180,000

  This rare and important autograph mask by Wildt has been exhibited in each of the recent major exhibitions of the sculptor's oeuvre. As with all of his great works, Wildt provides the viewer with a series of dichotomies: material, thematic and metaphysical.

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  Adolfo Wildt and Workshop, L'Anima e la sua Veste
  Estimate £100,000–150,000

  This very rare marble is one of only a few versions in marble to have been made. The present marble appears to be a fourth, rediscovered, version. L’Anima e la sua veste exemplifies the mystery of Wildt’s symbolism.

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  Pietro Bazzanti, The Finding of Moses
  Estimate £80,000–120,000

  This exceptional marble group encapsulates the romantic historicist movement in late 19th century Italian sculpture. Though representing a religious subject, the marble is imbued with the playful exuberance found in genre sculpture, lending it a unique appeal.

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  Charles Raphael Peyre, Fons Amoris (Fountain of Love)
  Estimate £60,000–80,000

  The dazzling combination of white marble, gilt lead, and mosaic in the present group reflects the taste for polychromed sculpture at the turn of the century, when award-winning sculptor Peyre was working. It recalls aspects of the Art Nouveau movement.

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  Cristoforo Vicari, Psyche with a butterfly
  Estimate £60,000–80,000

  The present exuberant marble shows Psyche as a young girl, with short, butterfly wings. The abundance of leaves and flowers wrapping around Psyche's legs on the present marble show the sculptor's skill in carving different surface textures.

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  Ignazio Villa, Hero
  Estimate £40,000–60,000

  This compelling marble tells the tragic love story of Hero, a young priestess of Aphrodite. Hero, first executed in Villa’s final year in Rome, was copied several times in different dimensions. This is most likely the original version.

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  Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Vénus désarmant l'amour (Venus disarming Cupid)
  Estimate £40,000–60,000

  Carrier-Belleuse imbues his interpretation of the subject with a playful eroticism that is characteristic of his Belle Epoque sensitivity. Versions of the model in marble are significantly rarer than those in terracotta, and this is a finely executed example.

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  Jean de Bay, Le Génie de la Marine (The Spirit of Seafaring)
  Estimate £40,000–60,000

  This important marble is almost certainly the Génie de la Marine exhibited by Jean De Bay at the Paris Salon of 1833 and later in the collection of M. Hoppe, an Amsterdam banker. The sculptor's skill is evident in his confident handling of the marble.

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  Jean Boucher, Venus and Cupid
  Estimate £40,000–60,000

  The present marble is a fine example of Boucher's accomplished Romanticism. Jean Boucher exhibited frequently at the Paris salon. A few versions of the present composition have appeared on the market in the past decades.

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  Sir Alfred Gilbert R.A., Perseus Arming
  Estimate £40,000–60,000

  Perseus Arming is arguably Alfred Gilbert's most recognisable and desirable model. The present cast is of the rare largest size, and is probably one of the ten casts of the model, made under Gilbert’s supervision. With his Perseus, Gilbert secured international recognition as the foremost British sculptor of his generation.

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