ALFREDO BIAGINI Rome, 1886 - 1952 Doe Waxed and patinated plaster sculpture, 36 x 20 x 9,5 cm BIOGRAPHY: Son of a goldsmith, he studied sculpture and architecture in Rome since 1905, and four years later he went to Paris to complete his training, among other things following courses in comparative anatomy. During the war years he has his studio in Villa Strohl-fern, where he is in contact with Drei and Selva. He made his debut in the context of the Secessions and in 1918 - the only sculptor, with Attilio Selva - he participated in the important review of the Casina del Pincio, in which, among others, Ferrazzi, Spadini, Socrate, Oppo are present. He is part of the commissions for the first two Roman Biennials, to which he exhibits. He subsequently participated in major exhibitions in Italy and abroad: Geneva (1920-21), Berlin (1921), Dusseldorf (1922), and, in the same year, at the spring Fiorentina. His participation in the I Mostra del Novecento italiano in Milan (1926), where one of his works was purchased by the Permanente, was very successful. His success as a sculptor throughout the 1930s is testified by his personal exhibitions at the 1936 Venice Biennale and at the III Quadriennale in Rome, where he exhibited 26 sculptures. At the beginning specializing in a vast and successful production of animal rights, towards the 1920s he implemented a recovery of Roman and Renaissance classicism, alternating the studies of female figures with those of animals. In this phase the conception of a rigorous architectural construction of the form matures and the taste for an impeccable formal politeness that brings him closer to the "return to the twentieth century" order and to the plastic of Maillol. Frequent are his contacts with Paris, where he goes with his wife Wanda. A very good friend of de Chirico, he exhibited with him at the Galleria S. Silvestro (1945), and de Chirico himself curated the retrospective exhibition of Biagini set up at the International Artistic Association of Rome (1954) BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. de Chirico, text in cat. retrospective at the International Artistic Association, Rome 1954; F. Benzi, card in cat. The artists of Villa Strohl-fern, Rome 1983; Catalog of the exhibition Italian sculpture of the early twentieth century, edited by V.Sgarbi, Rome 1993. Very good condition
ALFREDO BIAGINI Rome, 1886 - 1952 Doe Waxed and patinated plaster sculpture, 36 x 20 x 9,5 cm BIOGRAPHY: Son of a goldsmith, he studied sculpture and architecture in Rome since 1905, and four years later he went to Paris to complete his training, among other things following courses in comparative anatomy. During the war years he has his studio in Villa Strohl-fern, where he is in contact with Drei and Selva. He made his debut in the context of the Secessions and in 1918 - the only sculptor, with Attilio Selva - he participated in the important review of the Casina del Pincio, in which, among others, Ferrazzi, Spadini, Socrate, Oppo are present. He is part of the commissions for the first two Roman Biennials, to which he exhibits. He subsequently participated in major exhibitions in Italy and abroad: Geneva (1920-21), Berlin (1921), Dusseldorf (1922), and, in the same year, at the spring Fiorentina. His participation in the I Mostra del Novecento italiano in Milan (1926), where one of his works was purchased by the Permanente, was very successful. His success as a sculptor throughout the 1930s is testified by his personal exhibitions at the 1936 Venice Biennale and at the III Quadriennale in Rome, where he exhibited 26 sculptures. At the beginning specializing in a vast and successful production of animal rights, towards the 1920s he implemented a recovery of Roman and Renaissance classicism, alternating the studies of female figures with those of animals. In this phase the conception of a rigorous architectural construction of the form matures and the taste for an impeccable formal politeness that brings him closer to the "return to the twentieth century" order and to the plastic of Maillol. Frequent are his contacts with Paris, where he goes with his wife Wanda. A very good friend of de Chirico, he exhibited with him at the Galleria S. Silvestro (1945), and de Chirico himself curated the retrospective exhibition of Biagini set up at the International Artistic Association of Rome (1954) BIBLIOGRAPHY: G. de Chirico, text in cat. retrospective at the International Artistic Association, Rome 1954; F. Benzi, card in cat. The artists of Villa Strohl-fern, Rome 1983; Catalog of the exhibition Italian sculpture of the early twentieth century, edited by V.Sgarbi, Rome 1993. Very good condition
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