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Lot 77: ERCOLE ROSA

Est: £12,000 GBP - £18,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomNovember 25, 2009

Item Overview

Description

PHRYNE
signed: E.ROSA Studio O Andreoni Roma

Dimensions

91.5cm., 36in.

Artist or Maker

Medium

white marble

Notes



Ercole Rosa grew up in the town of San Severino Marche and began his professional career as a modeller of popular crib figures before moving to Rome in 1858 to study sculpture. His model of Phryne dates to 1874 and another version is illustrated in Panzetta.

RELATED LITERATURE
A. Panzetta, Nuovo Dizionario degli scultori italiana dell'ottocento e del primo novecento, vol 2, Turin, 2003, p. 784, plate. 1618

Auction Details

19th & 20th Century European Sculpture

by
Sotheby's
November 25, 2009, 10:30 AM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK