FIONA GOLDBACHER (20TH CENTURY) - LARGE ITALIAN MARBLE SCULP...

Estimate

£500 - £700

FIONA GOLDBACHER (20TH CENTURY) - LARGE ITALIAN MARBLE SCULPTURE 'THE TANGO'. (d) A large Italian marble sculpture of two figures dancing, titled 'The Tango', with a square marble plinth (102cms high). With a later blue painted concrete base (146cms overall). Signed at the bottom of the figure, 'F G, 93'.
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*Fiona has worked as a sculptor in alabaster, marble and terracotta for the past forty years; at her home and studio in Pietrasanta Tuscany, near the marble centre of Carrara, where she used to spend half the year. Pietrasanta has a thriving community of sculptors and artisans. She has had many exhibitions there: of her series of large figurative and abstract pieces, based on dance movements in travertine, carrara and pink rosa portogallo marble, and of her series of mother and child pieces in alabaster and soapstone. When In London she works mainly on her flower paintings and landscapes in gauche or oils. She has exhibited her paintings in London, Morocco and Japan. *CR The sculpture has a few minor scratches in places including the back, the marble plinth has some larger scratches/gouges to the surface and some small chips on the corners. The blue base also has some small chips around the edges.