Lot 106: LUIGI GUGLIELMI (ITALIAN, 1834-1907) EVE WITH THE SERPENT

Signed Guglielmi, Roma White marble, on shallow grey-white plinth, mounted on rotating circular red striated and grey moulded marble column Marble 89 cm (32 in) Column 62 cm (24 1/4 in) Guglielmi trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, under Filippo Guaccarini; his works were initially neo-classical in nature until he developed a more romantic realist style as seen with the present lot. He exhibited in London, Paris and Munich and other examples of his work can be seen in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna di Roma Literature: A. Panzetta, Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento, Turin, 1989, p.89.