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Cuban Bronze Sculpture of Argentine Lady Sgnd Listed browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Sculpture:Bronze: Pre 1950: item # 390186
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| This is a monumential, larger than life, bronze bust of Argentine feminist, writer, woman of the world, Victoria Ocampo [1890-1979]--sculpture is by famous pre Castro Cuban Sculptor, Arnaldo Serru, born in 1912, listed, works in National Museum of Havana--made various heads of Marti,created the famous monument in front of the piers in Havana--EL MONUMENTO AL MARINO CUBANO-- this bronze weighs over 130 pounds-signed and dated 1958-- has foundry mark-Funducion Nunez Rodriguez with what is believed to be a Havana telephone number--Tel B 7780---26 inches high--13 inches deep and 19 inches-wide-condition excellent- cast with lost wax process-deep green patina--a master work--Ms Ocampo was first women elected to Argentine academy of letters-1976-honorary degree from Harvard in 1967-founded magazine SUR in 1931 that developed into the most important literary magazine in Latin America-she clashed with the Peronistas who marked her home with a cross,identifying her as a oligarchic dissident-was imprisoned in 1953-donated her home in Buenos Aires, Villa Ocampo to UNESCO as a cultural center in 1973--she came from a patrician family-she was characterized as "THE MOST ARGINTINE WOMAN by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges--a very interesting, high quality sculpture that certainly has a tale to tell | |||||||||||||||
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