ARNALDO POMODORO (BORN 1926)
Torso III
1983
patinated bronze, with facsimile signature 'Arnaldo Pomodoro', foundry mark 'FONDERIA TESCONI PIETRASANTA', and numbered '6/9'
height 17 1/4in (43.7cm); width 16 1/4in (41.3cm); depth 6 1/2in (16.5cm)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Private Collection, California (acquired directly from the above)

Exhibited
Florence, Forte di Belvedere, 'Arnaldo Pomodoro. Luoghi Fondamentali', July 7 - October 28, 1984, (another example or the same)
Tokyo, Contemporary Sculpture Center, 'Arnaldo Pomodoro', February 13 - March 8, 1985; Osaka, Contemporary Sculpture Center, March 13- April 6, 1985, p. 25, (another example or the same)
San Francisco, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 'Arnaldo Pomodoro. Intimations of Egypt', April 25 - June 12, 1985, p. 10 (another example or the same)

Literature
F. Gualdoni, Arnaldo Pomodoro. Catalogo ragionato della scultura, Skira editore, Milan, 2007, p. 636, no. 728 (another example illustrated)
A. Bellati, Il mistero crudele dell'esistenza, in 'Arte', Milan, no. 397, September 2006, p. 77 (another example illustrated)
F. Gualdoni, Arnaldo Pomodoro. La bellezza possibile, in catalogue of the solo exhibition, Galleria d'arte L'Incontro, Chiari, 2006, p. 12

This work is number 6 from an edition of 9 and is listed in the Archivio Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, under number 728.