MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION

EDOARDO VILLA
[1915-2011]

EDOARDO VILLA

Relief
1956
bronze
signed and dated
13 cm high
[excluding wood mount]
Provenance: Russell Kaplan
South Africa, 10 May 2014, lot 68

EDOARDO VILLA

Standing Figure
1968
bronze
edition of 6 [1/6]
signed and dated
47 cm high
[including base]

Provenance: Johannesburg exhibition, c. 1970;
Private collection, USA;
Roseberys auction, London, 29.11.2023, lot 425

Edoardo Villa is South Africa's greatest sculptor.
He was born in Italy and moved to South Africa in 1941.
He represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale 5 times.
There is a museum dedicated to his sculpture at the University of Pretoria.

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