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

Girl with bear (Bambina in piedi con orso )

Year:

1903-1906

Dimensions (cm):

37 x 36 x 28

Dimensions (inches):

14.57 x 14.17 x 11.02

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

Plaster, red patina

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 32

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The bronze version of the group Girl with a Bear was exhibited for the first time in Milan in 1906, when Troubetzkoy returned to Italy from Russia. It is likely that the dating of the present plaster is between 1903 and 1906, due to its similarity Child with a dog of 1906. In an article of 1903, an interview is reported with the sculptor in his St. Petersburg study. Gavrilovich (2017) reports that the group could have easily been executed in the study of St. Petersburg after the interview.

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

Le Cinquante expositions des gravures originales, Gallery Georges Petit, Paris, 1908;
Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. The American Numismatic Society at the Hispanic Society of America, New York 1911 (march) n. 67;
Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy . The Art Institute, Chicago 1912 (february) n. 57;
A Collection of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, City Art Museum of St. Louis 1912 (march), n. 57;
Exhibition of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (USA) 1912 (april) n. 57;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990,n. 104

V. Pica, "Le Belle Arti all'Esposizione di Milano. Paolo Troubetzkoy" in Il Secolo, 21 maggio 1906;
A. Alexandre,"Les Petites Expositions" in Le Figaro, 27 Maggio 1908;
C.L. Bormeyer,"Prince Paul Troubetzkoy" in Fine Arts n. 1, luglio 1911, p. 19;
D. Angeli, "La mostra di Paolo Troubetzkoy all'Esposizione di Roma" in L'Illustrazione Italiana, I semestre 1913, p. 360;
E. Amicucci, "I Secessionisti" in il Mattino 2 Aprile 1913, D. Gavrilovich in Paolo Troubetzkoy , exh. cat., 1990, p. 160, n. 104, tavola colori snp. ;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 116