The Philosopher (Portrait Of Masto Ciccio)

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Object Details

Artist
Vincenzo Gemito, Italian, b. Naples, 1852–1929
Date
(1883)/(cast 1919)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
20 3/4 X 9 5/8 X 11 1/4 IN. (52.5 X 24.4 X 28.6 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Museum purchase, 1980
Accession Number
80.65

(Hotel Drouot, Paris, Sale 24 April 1979)
(Jacques Fischer and Chantal Kiener, Paris, May-June 1979)
Bruton Gallery, Somerset, to 14 May 1980
Museum Purchase, 1980
JACQUES FISCHER-CANTAL KIENER, Paris. "Peintures-Dessins-Sculptures," June 1979, no. 39. (This appears to be the catalogue cited in Burlington Magazine advertisement).

UNSIGNED. Exhibition advertisement in Burlington Magazine 121 (June 1979), p. lxxxv, ill.

Signature
Incised On Plinth UL: Gemito
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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