AN ITALIAN PATINATED BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE BUST OF OTHELLO

Dubini was part of the late 19th century Italian school of polychrome sculpture which combined white marble with bronze faces for orientalist subjects, and was led by Dubini’s Milanese contemporaries Pietro Calvi (d. 1884) notably for his busts of Othello and Selika, Luigi Pagani (d. 1904) and Raimondo Pereda (d. 1915). A number of similar busts of Othello by Pietro Calvi are recorded, one of which sold Sotheby's, London, 27 September, 1991, lot 17 (£115,500).