Exceptional Marini sculpture highlights Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art sale
(Artdaily.org)

Bonhams New York upcoming sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 14 is led by Marino Marini’s Studio per Miracolo, an exceptionally rare example of the artist’s important and enduring theme: the horse and rider (estimate: $500,000-700,000). Conceived and cast in 1953-54 during the artist’s lifetime, this work is remarkable for its dramatic depiction of a precise and critical moment in which the horse has fallen and its rider is thrown backward. Throughout his career, Marini`s equestrian sculptures grew increasingly stylized and abstract, and Studio per Miracolo is a powerful reflection of the artist`s dramatic view of the world. Other casts from the Studio per Miracolo edition reside in the permanent collections of the Marino Marini Museum in Florence and the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. This sculpture was first owned by Walter Fontana (1919-1992), an Italian Senator and esteemed art