LARGE ABSTRACT CAT SCULPTURE BY ALVINO BAGNI (ITALY) ART011 Sweden to Torsten Sundell and

Sweden to Torsten Sundell and Märta Pettersson

She married the Post-Impressionist painter and art dealer Donald Roy Purdy

his Art Deco figures

Production of table ceramics began in 1947

organic shapes that often feature rounded

LARGE ABSTRACT CAT SCULPTURE BY ALVINO BAGNI (ITALY) ART011 Sweden to Torsten Sundell andA rarely seen sculpture of an abstracted cat by master potter Alvino Bagni in his Autumn Sunset glaze. The sculpture is large, standing 13 " tall, with a depth of approximately 11" and 8" wide. Sculpted and painted entirely by hand, this is surely one of Bagni's most labor intensive creations. ALVINO BAGNI (19192009) was born in 1919 in the quiet hamlet of Lastra a Signa in the environs of Florence in Tuscany. His boyhood and adolescence were spent