| ERNESTO BAZZARO (Milan 1859 - 1937) HEAD OF A YOUNG GIRL Black chalk. On the verso, sketch of a monument in black chalk. Signed 'Bazzaro Ernesto'; 225 x 169 mm. A sculptor who also practiced printmaking, Ernesto Bazzaro, the brother of the painter Leonardo, studied at the Brera Academy under Ambrogio Borghi, but was deeply influenced by the anti-academic spirit of the sculptor Giuseppe Grandi and the painters Daniele Ranzoni and Tranquillo Cremona. Ernesto Bazzaro produced many impressive monuments, created figural decorations for Milanese building facades and also produced a number of small bronzes in commercial editions. |
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