Alfredo Biagini - Deer

bronze, cm 28 x 17 x 16
Signed on the base "A. Biagini"
Provenance: Rome, private collection
Exhibitions: Bard, Déco in Italia, Fortress of Bard 2022
Bibliography: Déco in Italy. L'eleganza della modernità, exhibition catalogue edited by F. Parisi, (Forte di Bard, Bard, 2 December 2022 - 10 April 2023), Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2022, pp. 152, 264.

A multifaceted artist with a European background, Alfredo Biagini experimented with the most varied techniques over the years. His interest in animals and studying from life is testified from the very beginning by a study permit issued to him in 1909 by the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
His animals are always balanced between naturalism and stylisation, between rendering of details and simplification of volumes. The sculptor's language became more precise in those years thanks to his constant participation in national (Venice Biennials from 1924 to 1930) and international exhibitions (Exposition Internationale d'Art Moderne, Geneva 1920, Salon des Touilerie, Paris 1929).
The successful animalistic production characterises Biagini's activity from the beginning until the mid-1920s. Of the Deer, the Amatria and the Elephant, a few specimens made with different techniques are known. In fact, Biagini passed with great skill from bronze to marble to ceramics, a technique with which he achieved highly suggestive results.