"Terracotta Bust Signed R. Aurili 20th Century"
Terracotta bust, signed Richard Aurili (1864-1943). Riccardo Aurili was an Italian sculptor active in Italy, Belgium and France. He created artistic, commercial and monumental sculptures. Riccardo trained as a sculptor at the Academy of Florence. He won the first prize for sculpture in 1883. After 1890 he spent most of his life in France and Belgium. At the beginning of the 1890s, the Aurili family settled in Paris and stayed there until 1904, after which they moved to Brussels. His Belgian period can be described until 1914. In this period, between 1905 and 1914 the production of works bearing his name include alabaster busts, plaster figurines, allogorical works of Napoleon, decorative objects. 
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