Lot 62: ATTILIO PICCIRILLI 1866-1945

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF GLORIA GURNEY

SPRING DREAM

measurements
height: 12 in.

alternate measurements
30.5 cm.

inscribed A. Piccirilli (on back of base)

bronze with green-black patina

Condition Note: Generally good condition, small ding to heel

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executed in 1918

PROVENANCE

(Sale: Sotheby's, New York, September 9, 1993, lot 162, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner from the above

LITERATURE

For a discussion of this model and illustrations of examples in marble and clay, see J. V. Lombardo, Piccirilli, Life of an American Sculptor, New York, 1944, pp 183-185, 249, 328, 337, 339, 347, 349.