Pieta

Arts of the Americas

Modeled 1931, cast 1932

Alfeo Faggi
American, born Italy, 1885–1966

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Alfeo Faggi
Title: Pieta
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Modeled 1931
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: base, right front: A. FAGGI/1931 base, right: CAST BY/AM-ART BRONZE FDY/CHICAGO-1932
Dimensions: 71.1 × 45.7 cm (28 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Samuel P. Avery Fund
Reference Number: 1932.1363

C.J. Bulliet, “Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art” (Chicago, 1927) p. 222.
C.J. Bulliet, “Apples and Madonnas: Emotional Expression in Modern Art” (Chicago, 1930) p. 238.
Guy Edlinton, “Reaching for Art” (Boston, 1931) p. 123 (ill.).

Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Religious Art by Artists of Chicago and Environs, Mar. 24–Apr. 15, 1931, cat. 60. (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Forty–Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 27, 1932–Jan. 2, 1933, cat. 233.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 755.
Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 190.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Sculpture and Drawings by Alfeo Faggi, Feb. 26–Mar. 26, 1941.
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Alfeo Faggi, Mar. 14–Apr. 2, 1946, cat. 29.

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