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Tête de Beethoven en bronze sur socle de marbre, au nom d'Alfredo Pina

Une chevelure en tempête, modelée à grands coups, encadre un visage aux yeux baissés et aux lèvres serrées. C'est une tête seule, sans épaules, dont le cou s'arrête net sur le socle. Le bronze brille d'un or chaud, et des traces de vert-de-gris affleurent au creux des mèches et au coin de la bouche. Il repose sur un cube de marbre noir veiné d'or et de blanc, dont la sévérité fait valoir le tumulte du modelé. La lumière s'accroche aux reliefs du front et laisse les orbites dans l'ombre.

Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, le sculpteur italien Alfredo Pina, 1883-1966, modèle à Montpellier un Beethoven dont il donnera au moins deux versions. Le buste est présenté à la Biennale de Venise en 1920, et un exemplaire principal est conservé au musée Fabre. Des éditions plus petites ont ensuite été fondues en nombre ; un antiquaire décrit ainsi un buste fondu à la cire perdue, signé et marqué du fondeur J. Pannini, à Paris. Le nom de Pina est associé à celui-ci par le marchand ; fonderie et tirage restent à documenter.

Époque
XXe siècle
Matière
Bronze sur socle en marbre
Sujet
Beethoven
Nom cité
Alfredo Pina
Dimensions
Hauteur 24 cm
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Hair in a storm, modelled in broad strokes, frames a face with lowered eyes and tightly closed lips. This is a head alone, without shoulders, the neck cut clean where it meets the base. The bronze shines a warm gold, and touches of verdigris surface in the hollows of the locks and at the corner of the mouth. It rests on a cube of black marble veined with gold and white, whose severity sets off the turmoil of the modelling. Light catches on the brow and leaves the eye sockets in shadow.

During the First World War the Italian sculptor Alfredo Pina, 1883 to 1966, modelled in Montpellier a Beethoven of which he would make at least two versions. The bust was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1920, and a principal cast is kept at the Musée Fabre. Smaller editions were later cast in number; a dealer describes one such bust, lost-wax cast, signed and bearing the founder's mark of J. Pannini in Paris. Here the name of Pina is given by the dealer; foundry and edition remain to be documented.

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  • Alfredo Pina (1883-1966), sculpteur italien, modèle son Beethoven à Montpellier pendant la Première Guerre mondiale ; il en existe au moins deux versions ; un exemplaire principal est au musée Fabre de Montpellier ; le buste est exposé à la Biennale de Venise en 1920 ; des éditions plus petites ont été fondues en nombre. https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2004/european-sculpture-works-of-art-900-1900-l04230/lot.137.html

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