Adolfo Wildt: 1868–1931

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  • Adolfo Wildt
    Milan 1868 - 1931
     
    La Vergine (Head of the Virgin)
    Carved in 1925

    Carrara marble

    Signed ‘A. WILDT’

    33.8 x 29 cm

     

    PROVENANCE
    • Acquired in August 1925 at the Terza biennale romana (open on 24 March) by Senator Luigi della Torre (1861-1937)
    • Thence by descent to his daughter, Michelina della Torre, and her husband, Rinaldo Majno; thence by descent in the family, until sold to
    • Claudia Gian Ferrari, Milan, as of 1995; when sold to
    • Private Collection, Piacenza
    • Private Collection, Milan, until 2024

     

    exhibited
    • Terza biennale romana. Mostra internazionale di belle arti. Roma — MCMXXV, Rome, 1925, p. 199, n. 10 (‘Testa di vergine’).
    • Il ‘Novecento’ milanese: Da Sironi ad Arturo Martini, Milan, 2003, pp. 174-175, n. 67 (‘Vergine’),
    • Margherita Sarfatti. Segni, colori e luci a Milano and Margherita Sarfatti. Il Novecento italiano nel mondo, joint exh. cat., Milan (Museo del Novecento, 21 September 2018-24 February 2019; Rovereto, Mart - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 22 September 2018-24 February 2019), Milan, 2018, p. 136, n. 18 (‘Vergine’).
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