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Plaster, in a bronze frame; inscribed, dated and monogramed to the reverse ‘ M. G i l a r d i n. / 6-5-1914 / LB’
52.2 x 41.6 cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection;
Acquired by Sheldon and Erma Gilgore, Naples, Florida on 18 June 1994;
From whom acquired in 2025.
The Toscanini Tomb – of which the present plaster is a reduced-scale excerpt from one façade - is among Bistolfi’s most refined and elegant creations, originally built for the burial of Giorgio Toscanini, the 5-year-old son of the eminent conductor, between 1909-11. In later years other members of the Toscanini family were buried there including the conductor’s wife Carla, his daughter-in-law Cia Fornaroli, his daughter Wanda, and her husband, the famous pianist Wladimir Horowitz.