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Image courtesy of the Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania

Cowboy on a horse (Cowboy a Cavallo)

Year:

1924

Dimensions (cm):

49 x 46 x 16

Dimensions (inches):

19.29 x 18.11 x 6.30

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

Plaster

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 61

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The clay version of the present plaster had been reproduced in April 1924. Another slightly different version of the plaster is kept at the Museo del Paesaggio (inv. T n. 77). The statuette is part of a larger series started in 1920 with Two cowboys riding (inv. T n. 29), exhibited in Paris in 1921 and continued with Cowboy on the lookout (inv. T n. 74) exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 1922. Much later are the versions of the Rodeos (inv. T n. 11, 12, 135), all formed by two plasters merged together on the base (Gavrilovich, 2017).

Paul Troubetzkoy (1866-1938), Italy, until 1938;
By descent to the heirs, Rhoda Muriel Marie Somerwell and Luigi Troubetzkoy;
Donated to the Museo del Paesaggio, 1938-1939

Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 176

The New York Herald, 20 Aprile 1924;
P. Venturoli, in Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990, p. 215, n. 176;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, p. 190