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signed with initials and mounted to a black marble base (Dimensions: 24cm high (including base))

(24cm high (including base))

Footnote: The son of Italian immigrants, Fernando and Pia Giorgi, Bruno Giorgi was born in a town near São Paulo. In 1911, when Giorgi was six years old, the family returned to Italy, where he spent much of his youth and received his early training in sculpture and design. Politically and socially active, in 1931 Georgi was incarcerated for four years, for conspiring against the fascist regime of Mussolini. In 1936, following his release from prison, and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Georgi travelled to Paris with the intention of maintaining contacting with anti-fascist resistance groups and honing his talents as a sculptor. In Paris, Giorgi attended the Académie Ranson and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he studied under the French sculptor Aristide Maillol, and exhibited in several exhibitions, including the Salon d’Automne in 1938 and the Salon des Tuileries in 1938 and 1939. After three years spent in Paris, Giorgi returned to Brazil in 1939 where dedicated himself entirely to sculpture and worked alongside the Grupo Santa Helena (Santa Helena Group) and Família Artística Paulista (Paulista Artistic Family). His early commissions in Brazil included a 1942 monument for the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio de Janeiro, and his 1954 tribute to Dante Alighieri, which now stands in the plaza of Don José Gaspar Dutra. Influenced by his former tutor, Giorgi’s early works were largely figural, with an emphasis on the stylised female form. His later work, from around the 1960s, became decidedly more abstract, with a focus on form and shape. Working with a diverse range of materials, including granite, terracotta, bronze and marble, Giorgi described himself as a fast artist, with strong technique, and a love of life.

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