BY RAIMONDO PEREDA, MILAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Details

AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP OF A CHILD AND ENFANT
BY RAIMONDO PEREDA, MILAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The base signed 'R. Pereda/Milano'
46 in. (117 cm.) high

Literature

Panzetta, Dizionario Degli Scultori Italiani Dell'Ottocento, Turin, 1994, vol. II, p. 623 (another example illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Raimondo Pereda (1840-1915) was born in Lugano and studied at the Accademia de Brera in Milan. He exhibited in Munich from 1870 to 1884 and at the Paris Salon in 1879-80. His works were also shown in Parma and London, at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. Known as 'Big Sister' or 'Attenzione, è bollente!' another example of this model sold, 'Property from the Estate of Rochelle Sepenuk', Sotheby's, New York, 21 October 2008, lot 110 ($40,625).

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