Albert-César CAPPABIANCA (1881-1962) - Lot 211

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Albert-César CAPPABIANCA (1881-1962) - Lot 211
Albert-César CAPPABIANCA (1881-1962) Bust portrait of an elegant woman with a pearl necklace and pendants Sculpture in bronze with a shaded brown-green patina. Signed on the back. Cast in the lost wax process Valsuani. Height : 45 cm. Width : 41 cm. Depth : 24 cm. Provenance : French private collection. Originally from Rome, Albert-César Cappabianca settled in Paris in 1912 where he acquired a reputation as a specialist in statuary art, particularly monumental art. He frequently visited Lèves, near Chartres, where he met a young woman whom he married in 1924, before moving his studio there. Known for his allegorical bas-reliefs and his bust portraits, he is also the author of funeral sculptures. He created the decoration for the tomb of the aviator lieutenant Albert Rapilly in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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