The Artist

The Artist is an original sculpture realized by Vincenzo Gemito in the end of the XIX century.

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The sculpture was realized in bronze with a marble base (18 x 18 cm).

This beautiful artwork represents an artist with a palette and a brush in his hands. The man's face and beard are very detailed. Signed Fonderia Gemito Napoli -  V. Gemito on the base by Gemito's foundry.

Vincenzo Gemito (1852 - 1929) was an Italian sculptor and artist. Intolerant of academic art, he associated himself with other "rebel" artists, such as Antonio Mancini, Giovan Battista Amendola, Achille d’Orsi and Ettore Ximenes. Between 1877 and 1880, he moved to Paris to participate in three editions of the Universal Exposition. Back to Naples, he received important commissions also from King Umberto I but, as a result of a mental breakdown, he was locked up in a psychiatric hospital until 1909, when he began sculpting, devoting himself, during the last years of his life, to the goldsmith's art. His most important works include Il Malatiello (1870), The Neapolitan Fisherman (1877), the Statue of Carlo V (1887), and The Portrait of the Painter Jean Louis E. Meissonier (1879).

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