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Fanfani workshop
A fisherboy
No reserve
Live auction begins on:
November 19, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Bid
1 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Fanfani workshop
1823 - 1893 Florence
Neopolitan fisherboy
signed: F. Fanfani Firenze and dated: 1883
white marble
121cm., 48in.
Please note that this lot will not be on public view in our New Bond Street galleries for the auction exhibition, but we would be more than happy to arrange a viewing by appointment at our warehouse in Greenford. To enquire, please contact eleanor.goldthorpe@sothebys.com
There were several sculptors working in 19th century Florence under the name Fanfani. The most famous Fanfani was Paulo Fanfani who studied under Luigi Sani at the Florentine Academy and is best known for his wood sculpture. He worked on decorations for the Pitti Palace and made designs for furniture and candelabrum as well as working for foreigners. Bruno, Saul, and Guido Fanfani are also recorded by Alfonso Panzetta as being active during this period (Panzetta, op. cit., p. 362). The present sculpture, signed F. Fanfani, exemplifies the decorative style that strongly appealed to the foreign market—a style in which the Fanfani workshop appears to have specialised.
The present sculpture is after a model by Cesare Lapini, and example of which was sold in these rooms on the 12th July 2023 as lot 80.
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Panzetta, Nuovo dizionario degli scultori Italiani dell'ottocento e del primo novecento, vol. 1, p. 362
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