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MARIO NEGRI (1916-1987)
Piccola allegoria monumentale
numbered '0/3' (on the reverse)
bronze
25 ⅝ x 4 ¾ x 11 ¼ in. (65.1 x 12.1 x 28.6 cm.)
Executed in 1957. This work is aside from an edition of three.
Provenance
Louis and Charlotte Bergman, New York and Jerusalem
Bequest from the above to the present owner, 2005
Literature
M. Seuphor, La sculpture de ce siècle. Dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Neuchâtel, 1959, p. 154.
C. Gnudi, MN Sculptures from 1955 to '60, Milan, 1962, pp. 9, 56-57 and 132 (another cast illustrated).
G. Ballo, La linea dell’arte italiana dal simbolismo alle opere moltiplicate, Rome, 1964, p. 209, no. 304 (another cast illustrated).
M. Spezia, The Sculpture of MN from Education to 1958, Milan, 1992, p. 209.
A. Finocchi, Mario Negri: catalogo delle sculture, Bergamo, 1995, p. 158, no. 139 (another cast illustrated).
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