Lot 49
49
AN ITALIAN BRONZE GROUP OF A SUDANESE MOTHER AND CHILD, cast from a model by Alfredo Pina, the woman seated on a step, the child leaning against her legs, signed Pina and inscribed Susse Frs Paris cire perdue, with Susse seal, late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN BRONZE GROUP OF A SUDANESE MOTHER AND CHILD, cast from a model by Alfredo Pina, the woman seated on a step, the child leaning against her legs, signed Pina and inscribed Susse Frs Paris cire perdue, with Susse seal, late 19th Century
7in. (17.2cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. de Pawlowski, ALfredo Pina, Paris, 1929, figs. 16-7
A. Panzetta, Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento, Torino, 1990, p. 182-3

Lot Essay

Alfredo Pina (1887-1966) studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, but moved to Paris before the First World War, where he was influenced by the work of Rodin and Bourdelle. The present group belongs to a series of studies of Sudanese people, probably following a visit to Africa, which includes the Banana Vendor and the Woman of the Sudan (Pawlowski op. cit.). They each reveal Pina's characteristic spontaneous and sensitive modelling, but furthermore, display an innovative interest in ethnographic types.

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