Medardo Rosso

ROSSO, MEDARDO (Turin 1858 - 1928 Milan) Gavroche.

MEDARDO ROSSO, Lo Scaccino, 1883/1884

ROSSO, MEDARDO(Turin 1858 - 1928 Milan)Gavroche

Medardo Rosso, Sagrestano, 1883/1884

ROSSO, MEDARDO . 1858 Turin - 1928 Milano. . San Francesc

Bambino ebreo da Medardo Rosso (Torino 1858 - Milano 1928)

MEDARDO ROSSO | Enfant juif

MEDARDO ROSSO (1858-1928)

MEDARDO ROSSO (D'APRES) (1858-1928) BAMBINO MALATO

Il birichino.

MEDARDO ROSSO | Enfant juif (Bambino Ebreo)

Bambino malato

MEDARDO ROSSO (ITALIAN, 1858-1928): ‘BAMBINA RIDENTE’ (BAMBINA CHE RIDE) A wax over plaster head of a laughing girl Subject conceived in 1890, probably cast by the sculptor’s son, Francesco Rosso, from the original plaster model  the head 26.5cm high excluding base, the base 33.5cm x 27cm x 5cm PROVENANCE: Clotilde Longoni Rosso, Milan (the artist's daughter-in-law) Louis Pollock, owner of the Peridot Gallery, New York. Acquired directly from Clotilde Longoni Rosso in 1959. The original invoice is included in the sale. Thence by descent to the present owner. EXHIBITED New York, Peridot Gallery, The First Exhibition in America of Sculpture by Medardo Rosso, 1959-60, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue (a copy is included in the sale). LITERATURE Margaret Scolari Barr, ‘Medardo Rosso’, New York, 1963, illustrates this cast on page 33. Paola Mola & Fabio Vittucci, ‘Medardo Rosso Catalogo ragionato della scultura’, Museo Medardo Rosso, Skira, 2009. Dr Sharon Hecker, ‘A Moment’s Monument, Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture’, University of California Press, 2017, p.131 illustrates a photograph by Medardo Rosso of this model of a cast of the same subject.  OTHER KNOWN CASTS OF ‘BAMBINA RIDENTE’ The following known examples cast in wax are listed in the Catalogue Raisonnée by P. Mola & F. Vittucci: Lifetime casts: 1. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Rome, inv. 2026. 2. Centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Casts without documented lifetime provenance and those cast legally from the original plaster model by Francesco Rosso: 1. Museo Medardo Rosso, Barzio. 2. Pinacoteca Nazionale di Brera, Milan. 3. Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, inv. 7356, gifted by Francesco Rosso in 1953. 4. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, inv. NM SK 2122 (1972). We are grateful to Dr Sharon Hecker and the Museo Medardo Rosso for assistance with researching and cataloguing this work. This important sculpture belongs to the above rariefied group of casts that are in major museums throughout Europe. It was sold by Medardo’s Rosso’s daughter-in-law Clotilde Longoni Rosso in 1959 to the American art dealer Louis Pollock, owner of the Peridot Gallery, New York. At the same time she also sold two other Medardo Rosso works which are on the same invoice, ‘L'Eta d'oro’ (Golden Age) and ‘Bookmaker’ which also both appeared in the Peridot Gallery exhibition. ‘L’Eta d’oro’ was subsequently sold at Sotheby’s London, on 9th February 2005 as lot 439 for £254,400. Interestingly it was mounted on an almost identical plinth to the present head, on what looks to be the same wood, with rounded corners and a recessed border about 1cm from the outer edge. The other work on the original invoice is ‘Bookmaker’, which the Museum of Modern Art in New York purchased direct from the Peridot Gallery. (Inv. No. 673.1959). They currently describe the provenance as follows:  1894 - 1928, Medardo Rosso.  ? - 1959, Clothilde Longoni Rosso, Milan (the artist's daughter-in-law), probably inherited from the artist or the artist's son Francesco Rosso. October 1959, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased through the Peridot Gallery, New York. The three works featured in The First Exhibition in America of Sculpture by Medardo Rosso at the Peridot Gallery and are all in the exhibition catalogue, a copy is included in the sale along with the original invoice and a letter from Clotilde Longoni Rosso authenticating the work. The present wax head is illustrated in Margaret Scolari Barr’s seminal work ‘Medardo Rosso’, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1963) page 33, and a photograph of the ‘Bookmaker’ featured on the front cover. Barr describes the head thus:  “Certainly the ‘Little Girl Laughing’ is a work that “everyone can understand”. The way versions are so shiny they suggest a child’s face well scrubbed. The principle of the single point of view, so obvious in the Rouart, is abandoned. The head stands free and can be seen

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*MEDARDO ROSSO (ITALIAN, 1858-1928): ‘PETITE RIEUSE’ A wax over plaster head of a laughing woman Subject conceived in 1890, probably a posthumous cast by the sculptor’s son, Francesco Rosso and cast from the original plaster model (now in the Private Collection of the Rosso heirs, Milan). Inscribed ‘Medardo Rosso’ ‘Danila Rosso Parravicini’ on the plaster interior. Sold together with the original letter of authentication from Danila Rosso Parravicini and a copy of the original exhibition catalogue from the ‘Pioneers of Modern Sculpture’ exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, 1973, and the exhibition catalogue from the 2003 Kunstmuseum Winterthur exhibition, mounted on a later wooden plinth, (the plinth 20cm high x 35cm wide) 34cm x 21cm x 21cm £70,000 – 100,000 * Please note that this lot is subject to import VAT at a preferential rate of 5% on the Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on the Buyer’s Premium. Please see our terms and conditions for further information. WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THE MEDARDO ROSSO MUSEUM, BARZIO FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE WITH RESEARCHING AND CATALOGUING THIS WORK. PROVENANCE Sold by the granddaughter of Medardo Rosso, Danila Rosso Parravicini on 17th August 1965 to Philip Granville of Lord’s Gallery, London. Purchased by the present owner from Phillips, London, 5 February 2001, lot 24.  EXHIBITED ‘Pioneers of Modern Sculpture’, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, 20 July – 23 September 1973, No. 181. ‘Medardo Rosso’, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 6 September – 23 November 2003, No. 25. ‘Medardo Rosso’, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Centre for International Sculpture, Duisburg, 14 December – 28 March 2004. LITERATURE ‘Pioneers of Modern Sculpture’ Exhibition Catalogue, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973, p.145.  (A copy to be sold with the sculpture) ‘Medardo Rosso’ Kunstmuseum Winterthur & Stiftung Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Centre for International Sculpture Exhibition Catalogue, No. 25, full page illustration, p. 100. (A copy to be sold with the sculpture). M. Fagioli, ‘Medardo Rosso Catalogue of the Sculptures’, Opus Libri, 1993, No. 30. Paola Mola & Fabio Vittucci, ‘Medardo Rosso Catalogo ragionato della scultura’, Museo Medardo Rosso, Skira, 2009, p. 126-131, p. 277-283, p. 127 illustrates a photograph circa 1907 of a photograph by Rosso of 1901, showing a wax cast of the Petite Rieuse. Dr Sharon Hecker, ‘A Moment’s Monument, Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture’, University of California Press, 2017, p. 137-139. Figure 52 illustrates an original photograph by Rosso of a wax cast of the Petite Rieuse.  Margaret Scolari Barr, ‘Medardo Rosso’, New York, 1963, p.34-36. Page 35 illustrates a wax cast of the Petite Rieuse which is listed as being in the Medardo Rosso Museum, Barzio. Page 36 illustrates a contemporary photograph of Rosso in his Paris studio modelling the Petite Rieuse. F. Stocchi ‘Medardo Rosso’, Giunti, 2015. p. 40 illustrates a photograph circa 1902 of a wax cast of Petite Rieuse.  ‘Medardo Rosso Sight Unseen and his Encounters with London’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, exhibition catalogue, p.54-55. p. 55 illustrates a photograph of the wax Petite Rieuse circa 1902, p. 27 shows another photograph of a wax cast of the Petite Rieuse in a rectangular glazed case, dating from the early 1890’s and in situ in Medardo Rosso’s studio. This exhibition included a bronze cast of the same subject.  OTHER KNOWN CASTS OF ‘PETITE RIEUSE’ The following known examples cast in wax are listed in the Catalogue Raisonnée by P. Mola & F. Vittucci: Lifetime casts: Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, inv. 554 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, inv. 80.1680 Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, inv.9072 Private Collection, Milan. Original casts without documented lifetime provenance: Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, inv. 170-20 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago / New York. Private Collection,

MEDARDO ROSSO GAVROCHE bronzo, cm 31x22x23, con la base h cm 46 realizzato tra gli anni Dieci e Venti del Novecento L'opera è accompagnata da autentica di Luciano Caramel su fotografia in data 17 febbraio 2005 Provenienza: Collezione privata, Parigi Collezione privata, Milano Opera giovanile dell'artista ideata nel 1881-1882, il Gavroche, noto anche come il Birichino, avrà grande fortuna nella produzione di Medardo Rosso. L'opera che oggi presentiamo è una fusione realizzata tra gli anni Dieci e Venti del Novecento

Medardo Rosso (1858 - 1928) Bronze.

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