Lot · 47968035*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,