MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK

LOT WITH HIS DAUGHTERS 1833

Louis Cretey is a highly individual exponent of one of the most anticlassical, non-conformist and eccentric expressions of Baroque painting.

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PUCK AND WILL-O'-THE-WISP (c.1864)

This marble sculpture of Puck, the mischievous sprite from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, together with his companion figure of Will-o’-the-wisp, was the American artist Harriet Hosmer's most popular composition. Hosmer was one of the most successful female artists of the 19th century and spent most of her life living and working in Rome. There she was a leading figure in an important group of women artists known as the ‘sisterhood of American lady sculptors' who expressed their feminist and anti-slavery views through the neoclassical sculptures they produced.

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View of Palermo 1861

The sitter of this portrait is Alpinolo Porcella (1874-1962): a writer, journalist, critic, but also an artist. Born in Genoa, he moved to Rome where he became a prominent figure in the Roman artistic and literary milieu of the 1910s and 20s, in close contact with intellectuals and artists of the time, like Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Giovanni Comisso and, of course, Viani.

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