Articles
Large bronze sculpture by Mauro Corda * representing a naked man in skin, stamp of the Foundry Delval (Lost Wax) and numbered 1/8, vintage period 1980-90 twentieth century.
This sculpture is in very good condition and is of exceptional quality. Signed and numbered on the base. Stamp of melter "Wax Lost Delval".
A report: tiny time wear, see photos.
After graduating from Charles Auffret at the Beaux-Arts in Reims, this bricklayer son born in Lourdes joined Jean Cardot's workshop at the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1981, before winning the Casa Velázquez competition in Madrid. 1985. Since then, he exhibited all over the world and developed an aesthetic vocabulary of his own. Whether in bronze, resin, aluminum or cast iron, his sculptures probe the limits of the body, animal, human. In Florence, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno and the Villa Finaly exhibit nearly fifty works, of which twenty are specially made for the occasion by the Massimo del Chiaro Art Foundry in Pietrasanta. At the Accademia, an army of dwarves revisits the Italian Renaissance - Botticelli's Venus, Michelangelo's David or San Sebastián de Mantegna - to the superheroes of American comics, while Villa Finaly hosts "The Insolites" - giant grasshopper, caged dog, obese copulating in a four-poster bed - recently exhibited at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris and the Eduardo Sivori Museum in Buenos Aires. In 2010 he became Vice President of the Taylor Association. Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
(See article Knowledge of Arts April 2015)
Artist very well on ArtPrice side
** Fonderie d'Art Delval founded in 1982 by Mr. Delmas.
ATTENTION: FOR A QUOTE OF DELIVERY CONTACT US WITH CITY AND COUNTRY OF DESTINATION.
BE CAREFUL: US PLEASE CONTACT FOR THE DELIVERY PRICE.
