KTG - Sculpture, Busto femminile - 41 cm - Bronze - 1940

Female bronze bust, signed with monogram and dated 1940, H 41 cm

Portrait of a young woman in hollow-cast bronze with a brown-black patina, Italy, 1940; signed with an engraved monogram in a cartouche and dated on the back of the base; height 41 cm, base 16 × 17 cm; original patina in good condition.

A face that seems to have stepped out of a Milanese drawing room in the 1940s. Her wavy bob is gathered into a low chignon, her long, elegant neck rises from a simple base, and her stylized, serene features gaze straight ahead with the contemplative calm of Italian 20th-century portraits, poised between the return to order and the Déco aesthetic. The hollow-cast bronze has a deep, dark patina that shifts in the light and highlights the hair locks modeled with a spatula. On the back of the base, the artist engraved their monogram, enclosed in a cartouche, and the date 1940. The patina is even and well preserved, with slight contact polishing on the face and a few small marks on the base; pins and casting residues are visible inside, as shown in the photographs.