The Dead Lover

Arturo Martinioriginal realized in 1988

Details

Title: The Dead Lover
Creator Lifespan: 1889 - 1947
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Milan
Creator Birth Place: Treviso
Date: original realized in 1988
Sculptor: Arturo Martini
Provenance: Private Collection
Physical Dimensions: w72 x h105 x d90 cm
Description: This work came to the Diocesan Museum from a private collection in Milan. It is one of the three examples in bronze taken from the original plaster casts realized in 1988. The original version, in painted plaster, is now preserved at Villa Necchi Campiglio (in the Claudia Gian Ferrari Collection) along with two other plaster sculptures from 1920-1921 (The Lovers and Bust of a Girl), which are exemplary of the artist’s extraordinary poetics during his time as a part of the Valori Plastici movement. The original plaster sculpture can be dated to the beginning of the twenties. That was a fruitful decade for Martini, and it marked the passage from his youthful stage, in which he was still following the canons of late nineteenth-century realism, to a subsequent stage, with works closer to Futurism. The seated figure with the mirror in her lap and a book of memories, her astonished face pointed upwards, is depicted with lines of archaic simplicity. It was designated by critics as one of the first masterpieces by Martini.
Type: sculpture
Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
Medium: bronze

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