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Professore Cesare Lapini, Florence, dated 1902
Lot 25

Professore Cesare Lapini, Florence, dated 1902

AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, ENTITLED 'L'AMORE DEGLI ANGELI' (THE LOVE OF THE ANGELS)

Closed28 October 2014

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Professore Cesare Lapini, Florence, dated 1902
AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, ENTITLED 'L'AMORE DEGLI ANGELI' (THE LOVE OF THE ANGELS)
Signed 'C. Lapini 1902'
60 in. (152 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 2007, lot 31 ($91,000).

Specialist note

Cesare Lapini was a sculptor of allegorical and genre subjects and models after the Antique which he sold with great success from his Florence shop to an elite global clientele. His unique compositions of partially disrobed maidens, such as La Sorpresa, and his allegorical creations of figures taking flight, such as the present work of two angels, and his group Celeste, are his most popular subjects. The Galleria Lapini exhibited an impressive number of such statues at the Paris 1900 Exposition universelle.