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

Human Brutality (Brutalità Umana)

Year:

1898-1900 (circa)

Dimensions (cm):

32 x 60 x 27

Dimensions (inches):

12.60 x 23.62 x 10.63

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

plaster

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 72

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The artwork, inspired by the artist’s love for animals, was carried out by Troubetzkoy also in another version, which is kept in the Museo del Paesaggio’s collection (inv. T n. 91). The present plaster had probably been created during his first Russian sojourn (1897- 1905). Due to its realistic character, the present plaster could be associated to two additional artworks, a bronze group kept at the Galleria D’Arte Moderna of Venice and the plaster titled “Divoratori di cadaveri” conserved at the Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania. Gavrilovich (2017) states that no review or text on the present plaster has been found.

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. 70

D. Gavrilovich, in Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990, p. 133, n. 70;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p.102