Giuseppe Bianchi Group of three women on a pillar, 1920

Giuseppe Bianchi Group of three women 1920. Three nude women climbing a pillar resting on a square base, holding a banner or something similar. One of them holds a wheel of a cart. 

This bronze cast is signed on the base G. Bianchi, resting on a square marble base, and features a beautiful dark patina, in good condition. 

The fluid modeling of this composition, the deforming line of the three female figures almost detached from anatomical reality, but with a strong emotional and spiritual impact, are features that lead us to place the sculpture in the second decade of the 20th century, in the symbolic currents of the era.

Giuseppe Bianchi (Como 1864 - 1944) participated in the National Exhibition in Brera in 1922 with a marble sculpture “Dear Remembrances”. Some of his works are also known, recently appeared on the public market, and are part of the Art Collection of the Maggiore Hospital in Milan.

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