Orfeo Tamburi. Tall art deco modernist bronze sculpture. 1931

Orefo TAMBURI (1910-1994)

Hospitality

A tall art deco bronze sculpture of a lady holding a fruits basket.
Circa 1930.
Green marble base.
Signed to the bronze.
Dated 1931.
62cm high 20cm width

Original period bronze sculpture. Read below. 

Orfeo Tamburi (Jesi, 1910 – Ermont, 1994)
Italian painter, draftsman, stage designer, and sculptor Orfeo Tamburi was a major figure of twentieth-century Italian art, best known for his paintings and drawings marked by lyrical restraint and a subtle sensitivity to light and urban atmosphere. Born in Jesi in 1910, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he came into contact with artists of the Scuola Romana. In 1935–1936 he spent time in Paris, where his discovery of Cézanne profoundly influenced his artistic language. After World War II, Tamburi settled permanently in France and pursued an international career as a painter, watercolorist, illustrator, and stage designer, exhibiting at the Venice Biennale, the Rome Quadriennale, and in major European and American galleries. Although primarily celebrated as a painter, Tamburi also explored sculpture early in his career. Around the mid-1930s he created the model titled Ospitalità (Hospitality), a work that would later be cast in bronze in several versions. Some later editions bear the date 1936 or were produced in a limited series of 99 smaller bronzes. The example in my possession, a bronze measuring 62 cm in height, is the largest and earliest known version of this subject and is regarded as the original model from which subsequent casts were derived.