ARNALDO POMODORO BOX IN TEAK AND SILVER PLATED BRONZE

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Sculpture of Arnaldo Pomodoro Box in teak an silver-plated bronze Very beautiful and prestigious work of the famous Italian Artist Arnaldo Pomodoro. Arnaldo Pomodoro's box in teak and silver-plated bronze The edition is esclusive privilege of CARIPLO it has been carried out in five hundred copies numbered from 1/500 to 500/500. This is the exemplary number 291/500. The box shows the signature of Arnaldo Pomodoro . Furnished with the certificate of authenticity. --- FREE SHIPMENT - EXPRESS COURIER --- Arnaldo Pomodoro was born on June 23, 1926, in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. From the mid-1940s until 1957 he served as a consultant for the restoration of public buildings in Pesaro, while studying stage design and working as a goldsmith. In 1954 Pomodoro moved to Milan, where he met Enrico Baj, Sergio Dangelo, Lucio Fontana, and other artists. His work was first exhibited that year at the Galleria Numero in Florence and at the Galleria Montenapoleone in Milan. In 1955 his sculpture was shown for the first time at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan. Pomodoro visited New York in 1956 and traveled in Europe in 1958. In Paris in 1959 he met Alberto Giacometti and Georges Mathieu, before returning to the United States, where he organized exhibitions of contemporary Italian art at the Bolles Gallery in New York and San Francisco. In New York the following year Pomodoro met Louise Nevelson and David Smith. He helped found the Continuit� group in Italy in 1961–62. The sculptor traveled to Brazil on the occasion of his participation in the 1963 São Paulo Bienal, where he was awarded the International Sculpture Prize. A solo show of his work was included in the Venice Biennale of 1964. In 1965 he was given the first of many solo exhibitions at the Marlborough galleries in New York and Rome. The artist taught at Stanford University in California in 1966. In 1967 Pomodoro was represented in the Italian Pavilion at Expo �67 in Montreal, and he received a prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. In 1968 he taught at the University of California at Berkeley; in 1970 he returned to Berkeley to attend the opening of an exhibition of his work that originated there and later traveled in the United States. During the late 1960s and early 1970s he executed commissions for outdoor sculpture in Darmstadt, New York, and Milan. In 1975 a Pomodoro retrospective was sponsored by the Municipality of Milan at the Rotonda della Besana. Pomodoro lives and works in Milan. (Source: /site/artist_bio_130.html ) Some of Pomodoro's " Sphere Within Sphere " (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums , Trinity College, Dublin , the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art , and the University of California, Berkeley . His thematic work "Forme del Mito" (Forms of Myth) was displayed at Brisbane's World Expo '88 and was later purchased by Brisbane City Council for the City of Brisbane . Museum of Outdoor Arts also has a piece by Pomodoro in their collection entitled "Disco Emergente" which is on permanent public display in Greenwood Village, CO USA. ******* IN ORDER TO HAVE A BETTER IDEA ON THE ESTIMATED VALUE OF THIS ITEM, PLEASE, HAVE A LOOK TO RECENT AUCTIONS OF SOTHEBY'S AND CHRISTIES ON THE WEB FOR SIMILAR MASTERPIECES OF ARNALDO POMODORO Dimensions approx: 143 x 112 x 55 mm 5.62 x 4.40 x 2.16 inch Shipping: Europe: FREE* USA - Rest of the world: FREE * Oceania : FREE* * EXPRESS COURIER . A prompt payment is appreciated. In the impossibility to effect payment within 3 days from the purchase please contact me. If I don't receive news within seven days from the purchase I will start the procedure of "non pay Bidder" and the item will be put in sale again. <... read more

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