Giovanni de Martino

Giovanni De Martino (January 13, 1870, Naples–March 3, 1935, Naples) was an Italian sculptor active in Paris. During the 1931 Quadrennial Exhibition in Rome, Benito Mussolini identified Giovanni de Martino as the most important sculptor representing Italian art.

In 1900, he won a prize at the Salon de Paris at Louvre Museum for a bronze of a fisherman.

Museums

• Louvre Museum, Paris
• Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Castello di Masnago, Varese
• Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthplace Museum, Caprese Michelangelo, Arezzo
• Gallery of the Academy of Naples, ("Bimba pensosa")
• Museum of the "Federico Zeri Foundation", University of Bologna
• Civic Museum of Varese (inv. 278)
• M.a.x.museo, Municipality of Chiasso Collection, Switzerland
• Fortunato Calleri Museum of Catania

Art market

At a New York Sotheby's auction in 2008, Giovanni De Martino's Fishermen (1930), a bronze sculpture, sold for US $7,500 plus auction fees.

Related pages

• The Lobster Fisherman (De Martino)

Bibliography

• Enrico Giannelli, Artisti napoletani viventi, 1916
• A. Panzetta, Dizionario della Scultura dell’Ottocento e Primo Novecento
• Dizionario E.Benezit
• Dizionario dell’Arte e artisti dell’Ottocento della Scuola Napoletana e di Posillipo D.Maggiore (1955)
• Dizionario degli scultori italiani dal Neoclassicismo al Liberty V.Vicario (1994)
• Arte a Napoli dal 1920 al 1945 gli anni difficili M.Picone Petrusa Electa (2000)