Ernesto BAZZARO (1857-1937) - Maternity with domadaire

Edition in bronze with strongly shaded tobacco patina
Very fine sand casting
Signed on the terrace and dated 1920
Height: 55 cm
Length: 47 cm

Ref: Sculpture reproduced in the book "Les Orientalistes" by Stéphane Richemond - Les Éditions de l'Amateur. Page 41

Biography :


Italian School

Ernesto Bazzaro was born in Milan on March 29, 1859. His brother Leonardo was a painter.

He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a pupil of Ambrogio Borghi, adopting a naturalist style close to verismo.

He then studied with Giuseppe Grandi, who had first replaced the smooth, polished model of the classical style with more tormented, sometimes barely sketched forms. The artist became his faithful disciple.

A little later, Bazzaro befriended the painter Tranquilo Cremona, whose research into light had a profound influence on him. From Cremona, he learned this particular anti-academic technique, with open forms that allow light to refract.

A prodigiously active sculptor, Ernesto Bazzaro was appreciated during his lifetime for his many and varied works, including portraits, funerary monuments, memorials to the dead and all manner of sculptures for palaces and bourgeois homes.

Such was his success that he was now considered one of the greatest exponents of Lombard sculpture.

He won a silver medal at the 1889 Universal Exhibition and the Grand Prix at the 1900 one.