BY LUIGI PAGANI, 1872

Details

AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BUST OF A LADY
BY LUIGI PAGANI, 1872
Set on waisted plinth with relief carved bodice, signed 'PAGANI. L.F. 1872 IN MILANO', minor restoration
29 in. (74 cm.)

Literature

Vincenzo Vicario, Gli Scultori Italiani dal Neoclassicismo al Liberty, Lodi, 1990.
Alfonso Panzetta, Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento e del Primo Novocento, Turin, 1994, pp.202 and 137.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

After initial training in his native town of Bergamo, Luigi Pagani (d.1904) moved to Milan and studied at the prestigious Accademia di Brera under the guidance of benedetto Cacciatori. After winning the Accademia's annual sculpture competition in 1860 with his Jesus in the Garden (now in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan), Pagani began his career with several public commissions in Milan, most prominent of which were numerous sculptures for the interior of the Duomo. From the mid-1860s, his work was shown at major annual exhibitions in Brera, Milan, Turin and Rome, and from 1870 at the Royal Academy in London.

An important pair of bronze and marble busts by Pagani of Nelusko and Selika were sold by Christie's, New York on 28 October 2003 for $280,000.

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