Lot 31
Lot 31
LEONCILLO (1915-1968)

Cariatide (Caryatid)

    Price Realised GBP 12,500
    Estimate
    GBP 10,000 - GBP 15,000
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    LEONCILLO (1915-1968)

    Cariatide (Caryatid)

    Price Realised GBP 12,500
    Price Realised GBP 12,500
    Details
    LEONCILLO (1915-1968)
    Cariatide (Caryatid)
    terracotta
    337⁄8 x 77⁄8 x 75⁄8in. (86 x 20 x 19.5cm.)
    Executed in 1945

    The work is accompanied by a photocertificate by Enrico Mascelloni, and it will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné.
    Provenance
    Private Collection, Rome.
    Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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    Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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    Lot Essay

    ‘The cut, materially executed in clay, as if it were incised by a cleaver, is the clear demonstration of Leoncillo’s Cubist intelligence: it represents the decomposition of naturalistic volumes into a series of chromatic and luminous planes, in which the object is simultaneously portrayed – as anything but natural – together with its syntactic elaboration into a form that goes far beyond that of a natural object. [...] For this reason, Leoncillo could not use anything but clay, exalting it from its artisanal status to its most autonomous and rarefied form’ -Cesare Brandi
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