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Sculpture signed, dated, localized by Vastok / P. Kûfferle, dated June 1923 (giugno 1923) localized Lavaiano (village in Tuscany )
Born 1/07/1871 in Verona, died 20/08/1942 in Pontedera.
He graduated from the Verona Academy of Fine Arts, where he was a pupil of the sculptor Grazioso Spazzi.
From 1889 to 1897, he worked in Prague.
Between 1891 and 1892, he created a large bas-relief for the façade of the Prince Vittorio Emanuel School in Verona.
In 1899, he was invited to St. Petersburg to join the Bot brothers' workshop, where he worked for the next 8 years, creating his own school of artistic marble treatment.
In 1903, at the request of the Imperial Pazi Corps, he made a bust of all the Russian emperors.
In 1914, he made a monumental figure of Christ descending from above Tabor to the tombstone of Anna Wierszyniny in St. Petersburg's Nowodewicze cemetery. He also had many other prestigious projects.
In October 1917, he fled with his family to Italy, settling in the Tuscan town of Pontedera. He began using the pseudonym Vastok.
In the 1920s, he lived in Lodi.
Material: Carrara marble
Provenance: a Bergerac château
Ref: DKL7S0ICSS