A FRENCH BRONZE BUST OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, cast from a model by Alfredo Pina, the musician shown facing forward, signed A. Pina and with VALSUANI. CIRE PERDUE impressed in a diamond, on stepped square veined black marble base

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A FRENCH BRONZE BUST OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, cast from a model by Alfredo Pina, the musician shown facing forward, signed A. Pina and with VALSUANI. CIRE PERDUE impressed in a diamond, on stepped square veined black marble base
the bronze: 19¼in. (49cm.) high
the base: 8in. (20cm.) wide; 10½in. (26.6cm.) high; 9in. (22.8cm.) deep

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Alfredo Pina (b.1883) was Milanese by birth, studying at the Academia Brera then under Rodin in Paris. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français (1911), the Salon d'Automne (1911), the Salon des Indépendants and the Tuileries. As exemplified by this charismatic portrait study of Beethoven he specialised in portrait busts of musical and artistic figures.

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