Young Woman With Turban, Alabaster And Carrara Marble, Signed Pugi, 19th Century

Elegant sculpture of a young woman in bust signed Guglielmo Pugi, artist of the Italian school of the 19th century.

The sculpture is in alabaster and in black veined white Carrara marble represents a pensive young woman in three-quarter view with a hairstyle in the fashion of the beginning of the century: she wears a turban from which curls of hair escape and wears a garment with a soft drape held at the shoulders by two buttons.
The finely embroidered patterns of the dress and the turban also testify to the mastery of the sculptor.
This bust is enhanced by a pretty base in gray and red marble which highlights it.

A delicate and feminine piece that will find its place in a hallway or on a dressing table, and which will be a perfect gift for an aesthete woman.

Guglielmo Pugi lived in Florence, where he ran a sculpture workshop with his two sons. Their workshop, "Guglielmo Pugi e Figli", was mainly dedicated to export, particularly to the United States.
Guglielmo Pugi's work, emblematic of the Art Nouveau style, is characterized by direct carving in alabaster and Carrara marble (often white or veined). Some of his sculptures are now preserved in the Historical Alabaster Museum of Volterra.
Many of his works were presented at major international exhibitions, such as the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and the 1904 Universal Exposition in St. Louis.