Ernesto Bazzaro (Milan, 1859 – 1937), Caravan

Ernesto Bazzaro (Milan, 1859 – 1937)

Caravan

Bronze, 54 x 60 x 20 cm

Signed at the base

The work, with its strong naturalistic connotations and depicting a woman and child seated on the back of a dromedary, likely part of a caravan, is by the artist Ernesto Bazzaro (Milan, 1859–1937). The image, endowed with a profound humanity and tenderness, is rendered by the artist in minute detail: the rendering of the drapery is remarkable, as is the expressiveness imparted to the faces.

Bazzaro was born in Milan in 1859. In 1875, he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied ornamental design and met Leonardo Bistolfi and Gaetano Previati. In 1881, he won the Luigi Canonica competition with his sculpture Sordello da Goito, a work still in Romantic style. During these years, he came into contact with the Milanese Scapigliatura movement, a relationship that would prove crucial to his development; he followed the activities of the Famiglia Artistica and the Società Permanente.

The younger brother of the painter Leonardo, he attended the courses of Antonio Borghi and Giuseppe Grandi at the Brera Academy, dedicating himself to sculpture. He was one of the most important Lombard sculptors of the late 19th century, with a technique close to Impressionism; he was the teacher of Paolo Troubetzkoy.

His works include the original marble statue of Garibaldi in Monza and the monument to Felice Cavallotti in Milan, which depicts Leonidas I, the hero of the Battle of Thermopylae, to whom Cavallotti dedicated his work, Leonidas' March. Many of his other works were created for funerary monuments in the Monumental Cemetery of Milan and in Pallanza. His students include Costante Coter. A curious story surrounds the two female figures sculpted for the façade of Palazzo Castiglioni in Milan: deemed excessively promiscuous by the local population, they had to be removed and installed in another building. He died in Milan in 1937. His most notable work is likely the monument to Felice Cavallotti, created between 1901 and 1906. From 1905 to 1908, he served on the Milan City Council. In 1913, he exhibited Beduina and Self-Portrait Smiling at the International Exhibition in Rome. In 1917, he held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Centrale d'Arte in Milan, where he presented—among other works—the bronze Self-Portrait Serious. These self-portraits are characterized by an intense psychological rendering, one of the most interesting aspects of Bazzaro's work, which is also reflected in the serious and absorbed expression of the musician portrayed here.

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