Lot Essay
Greek by birth, Georges Bonnanos (d.1920) worked in France and Italy and was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon and at the Expositions Universelles, where he won bronze medals in 1889 and 1900.
Various Properties
A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF HERMES AND PEDESTAL, by Georges Bonnanos, the god looking slightly down to his right, with well-defined musculature, signed to the right-hand shoulder Studio Scultura Via Liossio 14 A Tene G.Bonnanos and inscribed to the front ΗΕΡΜΕΣ, with spreading circular socle; on a white marble circular-fluted pedestal with square-stepped base, late 19th early 20th Century
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A WHITE MARBLE BUST OF HERMES AND PEDESTAL, by Georges Bonnanos, the god looking slightly down to his right, with well-defined musculature, signed to the right-hand shoulder Studio Scultura Via Liossio 14 A Tene G.Bonnanos and inscribed to the front ΗΕΡΜΕΣ, with spreading circular socle; on a white marble circular-fluted pedestal with square-stepped base, late 19th early 20th Century
the bust: 31in. (79cm.) high
the pedestal: 50¼in. (127.5cm.) high; 13in. (33cm.) square at base (2)
the bust: 31in. (79cm.) high
the pedestal: 50¼in. (127.5cm.) high; 13in. (33cm.) square at base (2)